Events that occurred this week in Christian history include a Spanish Inquisition ceremony being performed, the first church ...

Santiago, or Saint James, was a popular saint in Spanish America, and statues and paintings of him abound ... The statue would be borne out of the church into the streets for the religious processions ...

The procession, called the “traslacion,” or translation, commemorates the transfer of the Black Nazarene from a church inside the old Spanish colonial capital of Intramuros, in present-day ...

"Beautiful beyond exaggeration," is how one Spanish chronicler described Tanta ... to the mountain where she would be sacrificed the procession passed through her home village.

Gibraltar’s Bishop has met a Spanish diplomat in the Campo de Gibraltar to secure Madrid’s help in the planning of a cross-border procession to mark 700 years of devotion to Our Lady of Europe.