St George is thought to have died around 303 AD when he was tortured and executed in Palestine, becoming an early Christian martyr. Other St George's Day parties are taking place at the Royal ...

Palestine, Lebanon, Castile and León, Catalonia, Alcoi, Aragon, Genoa, and Rio de Janeiro. Saint George's Day is celebrated on 23 April, the traditionally accepted date of the saint's death in ...

George is thought to have been tortured and executed in Palestine in 303 AD after refusing to renounce his faith. Upon his death, he became a Christian martyr and was canonised as a saint in 494 AD by ...

In his last public appearance on Sunday, Francis said only a few words, wishing a happy Easter in a raspy voice to about 35,000 people gathered in St. Peter ... “I ask that my tomb be prepared ...

Before his passing at 88, Pope Francis on Easter Sunday made what would be his last public appearance to bless thousands of people in St. Peter's ... From the empty tomb in Jerusalem, we hear ...

George Antone, 44, head of the emergency committee at the Holy Family Church in Gaza, said: "We lost a saint who taught us ... the Pope’s recognition of Palestine, his visit to Bethlehem ...

Francis, who died today aged 88, delighted the crowd of 35,000 faithful at the Vatican on Easter Sunday with an appearance on the balcony at Saint ... From the empty tomb in Jerusalem, we ...

Then too he delivered a message of peace. Earlier Sunday, Leo celebrated a private Mass near the tomb of St. Peter with head of his Augustinian order, the Rev. Alejandro Moral Anton. The Mass ...

Chad Johnson will become the pastor of St. Patrick in Leetonia ... and Our Lady of Lourdes in East Palestine. Joseph Ruggieri will become the pastor of St. George in Lisbon and St. Philip Neri ...

The arrival of the cult of St. George from Palestine occurred by happy accident it appears. Arculf, upon his return from the Levant, was shipwrecked on Iona and hospitably received there by Adomnán.

Tradition says George’s faithful servant, Pasikratis, fulfilled his master’s final wish by taking their remains to Lydda in Palestine. The Crusaders later brought them to the West. On Saint ...