In the "Ecclesiastical History of the English People," the Venerable Bede wrote that Redwald, King of East Anglia starting around 599 C.E., kept a temple with altars to pre-Christian gods as well as ...

In fact we have to remember that it's the Christians who use the term pagan to define those people who are not Christians. It's a Christian term for another group or the other people and so really ...

Drowning of  Marzanna  (Morana) in the Opole region in Poland. Photo: Mariusz Przygoda-FORUM-0436350188 Morana and Gaik: The ...

So, clearly all of those aren't martyrs. What are they? We have pagan catacombs, Jewish catacombs, and Christian catacombs. But one of the things we do see in the middle of the third century is ...

Eventually a tamer version of the custom was incorporated into the Christian calendar as St. John’s Eve. As a result, the conventional Polish celebrations of midsummer are an interesting mix of pagan ...