The young Roman Emperor Theophilus backed away from marriage to the formidable Cassiani, but he could not forget her.

A succession of religious leaders came to Kiev, hoping to win the wild barbarian Prince to their cause.

One week into a Lenten retreat with the Bishop of Hexham, a boy’s miserable life is turned right around.

By the early eighth century, sacred art was thriving in newly-Christian England, but in the East seeds of doubt and confusion had been sown.

Rudyard Kipling’s poem about St Wilfrid’s chaplain and an unusual Christmas congregation.

The Northumbrian monk is duped into wasting one of his beautifully-crafted sermons on a row of dumb rocks.