Mother Teresa - a Catholic monk who won the Nobel Peace Prize for her activities to help the poor was officially canonized in early September.
The secret corridor in the heart of the Vatican once saved the life of Pope Clement VII when Rome was besieged.
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A few hours after Pope Benedict XVI's abdication statement, two lightning strikes have struck the church tower, which is considered one of the most sacred places of Catholicism.
The famous Renaissance painter Michelangelo secretly painted a symbol of women's reproductive organs on the ceiling of the Sistin chapel in Vatican, Italy.
Yesterday, Pope Benedict XVI gave words of praise to the famous 17th-century astronomer Galileo Galilei