The Temple of Athena Nike. Credit: Troels Myrup, Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Standing on a bastion at the very entrance to the imposing Acropolis Hill of Athens stands a masterpiece of the Greek ...
In 356 B.C.E., a man named Herostratus slipped into the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, Turkey, and set fire to its wooden roof, reducing much of the giant structure—which the Greek writer and ...
The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, Türkiye is nothing more than ruins today. But in its heyday, it was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The first Greek temple ever to be constructed ...
Department of Religious Education (DRE)’s Did You Know?: Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple Did you know that our knowledge about the life of the Theotokos comes from Holy Tradition?
The Feast of the Entrance into the Temple of Our Most Holy Lady, the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary is celebrated on November 21 each year. The Feast commemorates when the Virgin Mary entered the ...