Archaeologists believe they found a residence of medieval ruler Harold Godwinson, England’s last Anglo-Saxon king. A nearby church and toilet were vital clues.

As the oldest daughter of Alfred the Great, it could be said that Aethelflaed was born into greatness. Contemporary ...

Born in 1953, she studied at the Marymount school with Anglo-Saxon nuns teaching her the art of being unperturbed. Later she was withdrawn from school as her parents feared for her safety where ...

In less than a month and a half, Pope Francis will install Franciscan nun Raffaella Petrini as head of the General Secretariat of the Government of the Vatican City State. The change will take ...

Snow is super rare in the New Orleans metro, and so is a priest and three nuns braving the frigid temps for an epic snowball fight. And the battle was caught on camera. The Rev. Timothy Hedrick ...

She once wrote, “All I know is that I always wanted to be a nun. I entered very young. I was the last of those who were accepted so young, but I knew above all and more than anything, that I wanted to ...

Or perhaps missionaries to the Anglo-Saxons bestowed that title even earlier. Or reverent Normans may have brought an Old French version of the name with them when they attacked Britain from the ...

They pointed out, for example, that the "Anglo-Saxons", as Lavrov referred to the British and Americans, had always tried to prevent an alliance between Germany and Russia. The Foreign Minister ...

The trial of an Ottawa nun accused of sex crimes at northern Ontario residential and day schools in the 1960s and 1970s will not proceed after a stay of proceedings was granted due to evidence issues.

SAO PAULO, Brazil— The oldest human being in the world is Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas, a 116-year-old nun from the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul who was born on May 27, 1908. Sister Inah became ...