An altar cloth has been found which has been called the “holy grail of fashion history” after evidence points to this piece of fabric being the last surviving gown of Queen Elizabeth I. Experts on the ...

U.S. Army soldier William Woodrow Anderson was in his early 20s when he walked into a church amid the rubble of war-torn eastern Germany during World War II and grabbed a piece of fine satin. He put ...

The cloth is embroidered with animals, plants and narrative scenes Courtesy of Historic Royal Palaces When Elizabeth I died in 1603, her wardrobe encompassed more than 2,000 sumptuously tailored gowns ...

London: A beautifully embroidered fabric — which was cut up and used for hundreds of years as an altar cloth in a 13th-century UK church — has been identified as the only surviving piece from the ...

For centuries, a rural church in England housed a lost Tudor treasure without anyone even knowing it. Eleri Lynn was researching for her book, Tudor Fashion, when she came across the image of an altar ...

A German theologian and friend of Benedict XVI, drawing on the writings of a ninth-century bishop, appears to have made a historic and fascinating discovery, revealing how the Shroud of Turin and the ...

Workers from Rich Murray Granite and Marble Works dismantle the altar at Holy Cross Catholic Church in preparation of moving it on Tuesday. Workers from Rich Murray Granite and Marble Works lift the ...

A historic Lancashire church is planning to reinstate aspects of its original 1854 design that were undone by an overhaul more than 50 years ago. The rector of St Walburge's, Canon Gwenael Cristofoli, ...

Police are searching for those responsible for setting a fire that burned an altar cloth and a bible at a Catholic church in Massachusetts. The vandalism occurred Friday inside St. John The Evangelist ...

GARDAÍ in North Kerry are investigating an act of vandalism at a church in Ballyduff in which the altar cloth was set alight. Sources told The Kerryman they are now following a definite line into the ...