The name “Myrofores” designates the Myrrh-bearing women who went to the tomb of Jesus Christ early on the first day of the ...

It’s Christmastime, when the whole town gathers in the church for The Emmanuel Annual, the pageant where schoolkids act out ...

This Easter season, Joplin’s Stained Glass Theatre will present “The Lower Room." Written by Pat Wooley, the play is an Easter drama in two acts taking place during Holy Week. Stained Glass Theatre’s ...

As an ex-beauty editor turned nomadic travel writer, I’m continually fascinated with the beauty rites and rituals celebrated around the world - from the cream-coloured swirls of thanaka used daily ...

Once a year, at Christmas, frankincense becomes one of the world’s world’s most talked about trees as it's presented during pageants to baby Jesus alongside gold and myrrh. So you might be wondering ...

"It helps us to be able to believe in Jesus as a real man suffering a real death and then rising from the dead," says Father Dan Troyan of the Holy Myrrh-bearers Ukrainian Catholic Church in ...

Smyrna disappeared in the woods, ashamed and regretful. The gods, moved by compassion for the young woman’s suffering, transformed her into a myrrh tree. Ten months later, the tree gave birth to ...