As a young woman, she had been promiscuous and enjoyed sex. But after rejecting the world and spending 47 years living naked ...

In 11th-century England, a saint with an extremely dissolute past became a cultural and religious symbol that broke ...

The liturgy used by the church in Alexandria in Egypt is attributed to St. Mark the evangelist. This church became known as the Coptic church because Copt is the Arabic and Greek word for Egyptian.

Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church mourned on Sunday the passing of Metropolitan Elder and Acting Patriarch Pakhomious, who died ...

In 11th-Century England, a dark-skinned saint with a promiscuous past became a boundary-breaking cultural and religious icon. A new study is hoping to reassert her place in history. She was old.