It’s mid-August, which means we in the Marian Library and across UD’s campus are anticipating a day off. While we are observing the Solemnity of the Assumption on Aug. 15, people in the Orthodox ...

Here is part of the conclusion of the oldest surviving Greek homily for the Feast of the Dormition, written by John, metropolitan of Thessalonica in the seventh century: The Apostles, however, lifted ...

This most sacred of Russian Orthodox churches combines Russia's Byzantine heritage with the art and architecture of the Italian Renaissance. Photographs by William Brumfield Russia has many sacred ...

Historian and architecture expert William Brumfield discovers the connections between the Russian monarchy and this monument to the Orthodox faith. Moscow Kremlin. South view from Sophia Embankment ...

On Aug. 15, Catholics celebrate the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Most years in most dioceses, the date is a holy day of obligation. The Church in her wisdom wants us to ...

For more than 20 years, German-born Nikodemus Schnabel has lived as a Benedictine monk in Jerusalem. Last year, he was elected abbot of his community. Its monastery, Dormition Abbey, is an important ...

Each year the Eastern Catholic Churches, as well as other Eastern Christians, participate in a fasting season Aug. 1-14 in preparation for the Aug. 15 feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God ...

Depictions of the Dormition of Mary are perplexing to a viewer ignorant of their meaning. Until recently, this ignorance was my condition. I only became aware of it while spending some mornings in an ...

There are many feasts of the Mother of God, commemorating the events of her life, her intercessions for us after her death, and her innumerable miraculous icons. Her most significant and solemn feast ...

The Dormition fast was established as preceding the great feasts of the Transfiguration of the Lord and of the Dormition of the Mother of God. It lasts two weeks—from August 1/14–August 14/27 (old ...

On Friday, many Orthodox Christians celebrated the Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos. The Russian Orthodox Church doesn’t celebrate this feast until later this month, but I thought I’d post a ...

Multi-instrumentalists Andrew Warner and Chris Taylor played in a few acts together in 2001, including Government Cud, which Warner describes as “a band about cows, aliens, infectious proteins and ...