A tourist asked to be whipped by a local wearing a Roman soldier costume as part of an Easter tradition in the Philippines. The holidaymaker visited Marinduque province to witness the annual Holy Week ...

"St George was likely a Roman soldier from 3rd Century Cappadocia, now Turkey," a spokesperson said. "His bravery inspired legends, especially the famous tale of him slaying a dragon. While the ...

In the late seventies, Contributing Photographer David Hoffman documented the religious drama enacted upon the streets of Stepney around Easter time, recording astonishing images of magical realist ...

Actors dressed as Roman soldiers hammered nails into the ... Dramas of devotion reach their climax when villagers, adorned as Roman centurions, drive 4-inch (10-centimetre) stainless steel nails ...

From the Gospel according to Matthew 27:54-55: When the centurion and those who were ... From his heart, pierced by the lance of the Roman soldier, flow blood and water: a mysterious image of ...

Hundreds of people marched through Maidenhead town centre to commemorate the ‘powerful message’ of Good Friday at the annual ...

The Robe came along two years later, this time telling the tale of a Roman centurion responsible for overseeing the ... of the 19th century,” it began life as an 1880 novel by U.S. Army general Lew ...

Cherubini’s remains were identified in December by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. He was 22 years old at the time of ...

A discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought beast to entertain the subjects of the ...

Bite marks from a large cat, likely a lion, found in a ancient skeleton are the “first physical evidence” that gladiators ...

Researchers compared puncture marks on an 1,800-year-old skeleton in the UK to various animal bites, and concluded that the ...