A mere two days after taking in a moment of history the Catholic Church and Chicago will never forget, area native Pope Leo XIV will be visited by his brothers in Rome - including New Lenox ...

Toward the end of the second century B.C., the Gracchi brothers claimed to have seen Italian fields empty of Italian peasants — the good stock who had built Rome’s success were dying out ...

WATERLOO, Iowa --- A restored religious statue honoring Waterloo's five Sullivan brothers killed during World War II now has a new home. The statue of Mary, Queen of Peace, was moved to the ...

After the death of Commodus, Rome ... Gracchus supports Acacius, who plans a coup against the emperors. While Gracchus is a fictional character, he was inspired by the Gracchus brothers, Tiberius ...

or talking statues, because these expressed themselves in writing. They are a series of figures scattered throughout Rome that people began using in the 16th century to post what were called ...

As a group, Abate Luigi, Pasquino, Il Facchino, Madama Lucrezia, Marforio and Il Babuino earned the nickname of Rome’s statue parlanti, or talking statues, not because they actually spoke ...

the statue was first exhibited at Fondazione Prada’s 2022 exhibition “Recycling Beauty.” Early this month, the 42-feet-tall, 1:1 facsimile of the Colossus arrived in Rome, and will remain in ...

Emperor Constantine, the fourth-century ruler whose embrace of Christianity helped spread the faith throughout the Roman Empire, now has a reconstructed statue befitting his larger-than-life role in ...

ROME (AP) — Emperor Constantine, the 4th century ruler whose embrace of Christianity helped spread the faith throughout the Roman Empire, now has a reconstructed statue befitting his larger-than ...