One of the many things mentioned after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks was that Al Qaeda had chosen that date as a ...

Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the battle of Hattin, an opponent of Martin Luther being made a ...

As Elector of Saxony, Augustus was one of the nine electors who chose the Holy Roman Emperor. But in the Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania, every nobleman was an elector, and an ‘election Sejm’ ...

Since January 2025, the tomb of Emperor Otto the Great in Magdeburg Cathedral has been the subject of extensive investigations. After the stone sarcophagus was opened in early March 2025, the work ...

Literally just a few kilometers from Germany, and situated in the heart of France’s Alsace region, is the stunningly ...

During the notoriously difficult harvest of 1524, when inclement weather had caused disastrous crop failures throughout the Holy Roman Empire, the countess of Lupfen ordered over a thousand of her ...

UNESCO World Heritage CentreLocated in the eastern part of the Thuringian Basin, the Cathedral of Naumburg, whose construction began in 1028, is an outstanding testimony to medieval art and ...

A medieval woman more beloved in traditional Catholic histories is St. Adelaide of Italy, the consort, mother and grandmother, respectively, of the first three Holy Roman emperors named Otto.

What is often forgotten, though, is Rubens’s illustrious career as a Holy Roman Empire diplomat. Turns out, artists have always been subsidizing their income with side hustles.

A brief history of Catholicism in Germany Christianity was introduced to parts of Germany around 300 AD by the Roman Empire, but it spread more widely from the fifth century when the Franks and ...

Augustus the Strong, attributed to Johann Joachim Kretzschmar, c. 1713. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public Domain. Although many of the potential readers of Tim Blanning’s latest book will not ...

Restoration workers at St. Andreas Church in Eisleben, Germany have uncovered a surprising find 400 years in the making. Inside the leg of a statue, they found four bags stuffed with coins dating back ...