Rev. Claudio Peppas at the Monastery of the Cross located in the Valley of the Cross in Jerusalem , April 2, 2014. The church is dated to the Byzantine Period .

The monastery featured in the photos below belongs to the Syriac Orthodox Church, a church which in the old days used to be misleadingly called "monophysite". The churches most often deemed ...

The monastery was constructed around the site of the tree stump from which the holy cross was fashioned and until the 15th century, it is said, pilgrims could actually view the cut-off trunk.

For nearly 112 years, Mount St. Sepulchre in the District of Columbia has been home to a Franciscan monastery and its Memorial Church of the Holy Sepulcher.

In the Catholicon (Main Church) of the Holy Monastery of Xeropotamou, thirteen pieces of the True Cross of Jesus Christ are treasured, four large pieces in ancient reliquaries and nine smaller pieces ...

This monastery, built in 1898 by two Holy Land Franciscans, features scaled replicas of the Tomb of Jesus, the Tomb of Mary, the Chapel of the Ascension, the Lourdes Grotto, the Anointing Stone ...

Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America 1400 Quincy St. NE Washington, DC 20017 MyFranciscan.org (202) 526-6800 Christmas Masses Christmas Eve Mass will be at 5pm and midnight. Christmas ...

Monastery of the Holy Cross Things to do | Talks and lectures Bridgeport Wednesday February 5 2014 ...

Completed in 2008 in Jyllinge, Denmark. The church of the holy cross was conceived as part of the landscape around Jyllinge. With its glass façade facing the fjord and a "fishing net" ...

Madrid, Spain, Sep 28, 2009 / 11:49 am The Spanish daily La Razon reported this week that a relic of the Holy Cross was stolen from the Benedictine Monastery of the Valley of the Fallen, which had ...

The historic Holy Cross Abbey property on the east side of Cañon City might be the location of a new residential and commercial development. The 187-acre site once housed a monastery and Catholic ...