Pope Francis has announced a Jubilee Year for 2025. During this period, an entrance to St Peter’s Basilica in Rome that is usually sealed – the Holy Door – will be opened by the pope. Over thirty five million pilgrims are expected to descend on a city already clogged by tourists – as I saw…
Gold rosary beads owned by Mary Queen of Scots stolen from Arundel Castle in a senseless theft of Tudor treasure as Tony McMahon reports
Infant saints have been venerated by the Catholic church since its earliest days with one three year old baby that it was claimed could recite scripture
Holy apparitions of the Virgin Mary and saints creates pilgrimage sites visited by millions of people every year as Tony McMahon reports
In the Middle Ages there were many reports of the Devil appearing in church as Tony McMahon discovers
Tony McMahon investigates the Turin Shroud to see how science and faith have clashed over its authenticity and whether it really is the burial cloth of Jesus
Many Catholic saints died in weird ways as Tony McMahon discovers on the Beardy History blog
Exorcism has a long and violent history as Tony McMahon discovers from casting out demons to a belief that changelings could assume any form
Why the Spanish drama series La Peste – The Plague in English – is one of the best historical productions on TV
In August 2017, Tony McMahon filmed with History for a programme called Buried about the Knights Templar hiding their treasure in Tomar, Portugal