Understanding Medieval Life Expectancy
Of the many inaccurate pieces of information that we often hear about the Middle Ages, one of the most often repeated is tha...
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St. Hildegard on Gemstones
One of the most remarkable minds of the medieval Church was St. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), a Benedictine abbess from G...
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Anti-Catholicism in the Salem Witch Trials
It is well known that in 1692 a hysteria of witch-hunting spread throughout the region of Salem, Massachusetts, leading the ...
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Archbishop Aelfsige Dies in the Alps
In the year 959, Aelfsige, the newly installed Archbishop of Canterbury, was summoned to Rome to receive the pallium from Po...
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Beornstan of Winchester (d. 934)
When we first hear of St. Beornstan, it is as a simple mass priest at the court of King Aethelstan in 924. As a mass priest,...
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Papal Primacy in the First Councils
It is standard fare in the apologetical work of Protestants and Eastern Orthodox to assert that the doctrine of the primacy ...
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