The Victorian practice of hanging sugared nuts on a Christmas tree was bursting with Biblical symbolism.

The martyr St Euphemia played a vital role in preventing the message of Christmas from being watered down.

A young monk was rewarded for taking his duties as guest-master seriously.

In 1910, Constantine Zervakos, a young monk from the Greek island of Paros, found himself charged with espionage.

Shortly after Askold and Dir founded Kiev in 862, they launched a brazen but ill-fated assault on the capital of the Roman Empire.

Hapless extremists try to wipe out a miraculous icon of the Virgin Mary.