This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. On a spring day in 1480, Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia ordered various astrologers to his home in Rome to ...

“I offer all of my suffering to the Lord for the Pope and for the Church in order not to go to purgatory but to go straight to heaven.” Thousands of people visited Carlo’s tomb following his ...

5. Pope Alexander VI: Corrupt and Salacious Hailing from the noble Borgia family, Alexander VI (1431-1503) was known for having many mistresses and he openly recognized several children as his own.

Alexander VI bought his way into the papacy and had a rollicking sex life. Alexander VI became pope in 1492 — but before then he was just Rodrigo Borgia, a member of the notorious Italian crime ...

The public can now visit the tomb of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in the grottoes under St. Peter's Basilica. The pontiff was buried on Jan. 5 immediately following a funeral in St. Peter's Square.

A teenager originally from London has been named as a saint by Pope Francis ... mother of Valeria Valverde went to pray for her at the tomb of Acutis and that same day she began to breathe ...

Enrico Piacentini (Caesar Borgia)Eugenio Gilardoni (Pope Alexander VI)Irene-Saffo Momo (Lucretia Borgia)Carmen Di Sangiusto (Rosa)Carlo Troisi (Duke Alfonzo of Aragon)Leone Papa (Jester ...

Edwige Feuillère (Lucrezia Borgia)Gabriel Gabrio (César Borgia)Maurice Escande (Jean Borgia, Duke of Gandie)Roger Karl (Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI)Aimé Clariond (Niccollo Machiavelli ...

On Thursday, May 23, Pope Francis met with Marcello Semeraro ... His body currently lies on display in an open tomb in Assisi, Italy, where the teen is dressed in his favorite outfit of blue ...

At the Angelus of the Epiphany, citing the historic meeting of 1964 that tore “down a wall of incommunicability that had kept Catholics and Orthodox apart for centuries”, Pope Francis urged ...