The Gospel for the Sunday closest to Christmas (which can fall anytime from Dec. 18-24) always features some aspect of the Annunciation. This is wholly logical, though perhaps less so in societies ...

GINA QUINONES walked gingerly into a room at the Cloisters on a May afternoon and gasped in delight upon seeing the famed Merode Altarpiece, a vivid 15th-century triptych depicting the Annunciation.

Prince Alexandre de Merode was an unlikely father of the battle to control use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport. A hereditary noble who never married, Prince de Merode came from a Belgian ...

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