Purple-colored cloth draped over wooden crosses, gold-and-white vestments worn by clergy, black drapery across pulpit lecterns, white Easter lilies on the floor of sanctuaries: These are some colors ...

JERUSALEM (RNS) — Researchers in Israel have identified pieces of fabric dyed ‘true purple’ dating to the 10th century BCE, when David and Solomon ruled in Jerusalem, according to the Hebrew Bible.

During the penitential season of Lent, it has become a custom for priests of the Roman Rite to wear vestments of the colour violet. This is a tradition that was gradually adopted, as initially priests ...

Researchers recreated the ancient dyeing process with mollusks. The color purple appears several times in the Bible, usually in a robe draping one of the kings of ancient Israel. But the search for an ...

A few days before Holy Week, one would notice that all the statues of saints and other religious images inside churches are covered with a purple cloth. Fr. Mhar Balili, the parish priest of the ...