Hubert Wolf is a distinguished German ecclesiastical historian whose study of the nuns of Sant’Ambrogio was first ... the Regulated Third Order of Holy Saint Francis, governed by a severe rule that ...

The book on which she collaborated with two fellow feminists drew global attention to the repression of women under their ...

Education: University of Notre Dame, BA in political science and economics María Luisa Paúl is a reporter on The Washington Post's Morning Mix team. Paúl hails from Caracas, Venezuela.

In “Helen of Troy, 1993,” the poet Maria Zoccola relocates a figure from Greek mythology into small-town Tennessee. By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary ...

Maria Goretti is a patron saint of girls, rape victims, children and youth in general.

Ambrogio by Acquerello, a modern Italian tasting-menu restaurant in La Jolla that earned a recommendation from the Michelin Guide in July, served its last customers Dec. 31. Co-owner Giacomo ...

Sporting gloves and a red ribbon to ward off evil, Ecuadoran police raiding a drug den apprehensively inspect an altar to Santa Muerte — a Mexican "death saint" adopted by local gangs as their ...

Patricia De Maria, a hardworking salesperson and native Staten Islander, died on January 17 at the age of 72. The cause of death was Alzheimer’s. Patricia was born in 1952, the daughter of ...

By Meryl Cates The ballerina Maria Tallchief was having dinner with her husband, the choreographer George Balanchine, at the Russian Tea Room in Manhattan when the impresario Sol Hurok approached ...

The woman's name was Maria Zaytsava, and she was then just 19 years old. She was among tens of thousands of people, many of them young, who had taken to the streets to protest the reelection of ...

the year in which the church of Santa Maria Fulcorina was dedicated to the "mystery of the Nativity of Mary." The church over time advanced to Cathedral of Milan (Saint Mary Major) to which in 1251 ...

Maria Sacchetti covers immigration for The Washington Post. She previously reported for the Boston Globe, where her reporting led to the release of several immigrants from jail. She investigated ...