Security staff at the Vatican have apprehended a man after he jumped on to the main altar in St Peter’s Basilica and damaged ...

A Virginia Catholic bishop says the desecration of the main altar in St. Peter’s Basilica on Friday points to a larger ...

A man has caused minor damage at St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican after jumping onto the main altar and knocking over 19th-century candelabra, worth several thousand dollars. Video posted on ...

Archaeologists believe they’ve fully excavated eight rooms carved from stone, which were used for ritual practices during the eighth century B.C. Evidence shows that the use of the rooms was ...

“The Bible describes how, during the First Temple period, additional ritual ... with a drainage channel,” likely used as an altar, while another room contained “mysterious V-shaped carving ...

In addition, when the area was filled about 1600 B.C. and a temple built there, its altar and sacred pillar were carefully placed directly over that same spot where the earlier shrine had stood.

Each god needed an image – usually a statue or relief in stone or bronze – and an altar or temple at which to offer prayers and sacrifices. Requests and prayers were presented to gods as a ...

The altar is dedicated to St Peter. It was originally consecrated on 13th October 1269. The present wooden altar table, normally covered by an embroidered frontal, and reredos above it were designed ...