Whenever I visit a place that I have seen many times only in pictures, I marvel that it is real; the reality is overwhelming. Such is true of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow. It is the quintessential ...
MOSCOW -- St. Basil's Cathedral, Russia's most recognizable landmark with its swirling, multicolored onion domes, is on shaky ground. Over the years, the rumble of tanks during Soviet-era military ...
More than 15 years before Our Lady of Fatima asked for the consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, construction began in Moscow on a cathedral dedicated to the Immaculate Conception.