Across the globe, Catholic churches have emptied holy water fonts in an effort to stall the spread of coronavirus, or COVID-19 as it’s officially known. From India to the U.K., the U.S. and even to ...

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I recently received some holy water — a gift I fear I may not have properly appreciated — and, having left the jug on our porch to freeze, I have begun to suspect that I might be suffering the ...

A well-kept secret of the Acropolis is a cave hiding an ancient Asclepius temple with a spring of holy water, as later Christians believed.

Holy water is a special kind of blessed water used in the Catholic Church to help people feel closer to God and prepare for prayer they are about to offer. It is utilized in many rituals and ...

The bottles of holy water were absolutely teeming with the bacteria Vibrio cholerae, per the report, with an estimated 100,000 to 100 million “colony forming units,” which allowed the bacteria to ...

Russian Orthodox priests sprayed 70 liters of holy water from a plane. Moscow -- Russian Orthodox priests in the Central Russian city of Tver took to the skies in a small airplane to save citizens ...

A Roman Catholic church in rural Louisiana hoping to maximize its blessings has come up with a way to do it: filling up a crop-duster plane with holy water and letting the sanctified liquid mist an ...

Unlike some recipes, you can make Holy Water in just four steps. Combine Water and Wine to get Holy Water, after first making Wine out of Dandelions. No, really. Here are the steps. If you’re looking ...