Last week, Pope Benedict visited the place where John the Baptist is believed to have baptized Jesus in its waters.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

Almost twenty-five years later, Pope Paul the Third asked Michelangelo to paint the wall of the Sistine Chapel above the altar.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

Lee sent Stonewall Jackson, with twenty-four thousand men, on a quick march around the western end of Pope's lines.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

Pope Benedict named five new saints on Sunday, including a Catholic clergyman who cared for people in a leper colony.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

In fifteen-oh-eight, Pope Julius the Second asked Raphael to cover the walls and ceiling of some of the Pope's private living areas.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

The leading English poet of Newton's time, Alexander Pope,honored the scientist with these words: "Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night.

VOA: special.2011.06.01

Pope knew that Jackson's army had taken a terrible beating in the two days of bloody fighting.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

Lee sent Jackson around the north end of Pope's line to try to stop the northern retreat.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

Pope Julius probably understood that the competition incited each man to the height of his greatness.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

Now we are in the Pio-Clementine Museum, founded by Pope Clement the Fourteenth in seventeen seventy.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

Pope brought up all his soldiers, and others were on the way from bases near Washington.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

Drummer Billy Hayes and bassist Stephen Pope joined last year after meeting Nathan Williams in Barcelona,Spain.

VOA: special.2010.07.23

In fifteen-oh-eight, Pope Julius the Second asked Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

One of McClellan's Generals, Samuel Sturgis, greeted Pope at Centreville: "I always told you,Pope, that if they gave you enough rope, you would hang yourself."

VOA: special.2009.09.24

They gave command of it to General John Pope, a successful fighter in the West.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

The Israeli environmental organization Zalul has appealed to the pope and other world leaders to help save what it calls the "world's most holy river."

VOA: special.2009.05.18

For example, Pope Gregory the Sixteenth established the Vatican Egyptian Museum in eighteen thirty-nine.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

They got behind Pope and seized a huge northern supply center at Manassas.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

Pope had ordered Porter to strike at the right end of Jackson's lines.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

The Confederates pushed Pope's army back across the Old Bull Run battlefield.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

Groups of McClellan's army, arriving from Alexandria, met Pope's men in Centreville.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

He said it was clear that McClellan wanted Pope to fail.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

Lee moved up to the Rappahannock River, across from Pope's army.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

Pope Gregory the Sixteenth established the Etruscan Museum in eighteen thirty-seven.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

The president also met Friday with Pope Benedict at the Vatican.

VOA: special.2009.07.11

Halleck ordered McClellan to bring his army up to join Pope.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

Pope thought Lee was still far to the west of Manassas.

VOA: special.2009.09.24