Posts Tagged ‘Otranto’

Pope will canonise 800 Italian laymen martyrs

Friday, May 3rd, 2013

In his first canonisation ceremony, Pope Francis will raise to the altars an estimated 800 Italian laymen martyrs killed by Ottoman soldiers in the 15th century. Many of the martyrs’ skulls adorn the walls of the sanctuary in the cathedral at Otranto, a small port town at the eastern tip of southern Italy, where the Read more