The feast of St. Joseph the Patriarch, also commonly known as the Solemnity of St. Joseph, is celebrated on March 19 by the ...

Since then, it has been long forgotten. Originally donated by the artist to Pope Sixtus IV, it was later housed in a church in the town of Santa Maria la Carità. Then, a local family was ...

Michelangelo was just five years old in 1480 when Pope Sixtus IV commissioned the building of the Sistine Chapel. The chapel was part of a glorification of the Vatican carried out by Sixtus.

The Sistine Chapel was commissioned by Pope Sixtus IV for the Jubilee of 1475, and the big Vatican garage was built for the 2000 Jubilee under St. John Paul II. Pope Boniface VII called the first ...

As this failed assassination attempt reverberated far beyond Florence, sparking a war with Pope Sixtus IV and reshaping the politics of Renaissance Italy. Cooper Kupp Shared His Blunt Conversation ...