The Lent season – which is a 40-day period of prayer and fasting leading up to Easter – starts on Ash Wednesday and ends on the Thursday before Easter Sunday. This year, Ash Wednesday and the ...

The persecution began on 23 February 303. It was the feast of Terminus, the god of boundaries – chosen, Lactantius says, ‘so ...

In the eastern Netherlands, near the German border, researchers have discovered an ancient site used for cult rituals, as ...

London's first Roman basilica has been finally found - hidden underneath the basement of an unassuming office block near ...

Buried at the Hezingen site, researchers discovered 25 gold coins, as well as gold pendants and a fragment of a silver ...

Christians are called to follow Jesus and reject coercive forms of religious and political power, to live lives of love and ...

Archaeologists Stunned by a Stash of 1600-Year-Old Roman Gold Coins, Depicting the Profiles of Different Roman Emperors A ...

A hoard of 50 Roman coins discovered by an amateur metal detectorist buried in a farmer's field in a 'once in a lifetime find ...

In the late fourth century—a time when Christianity had been made the official religion of the Roman Empire—a respected civil official named Ambrose became bishop of the imperial city of Milan ...

In the late fourth century – a time when Christianity had been made the official religion of the Roman Empire – a respected civil official named Ambrose became bishop of the imperial city of ...