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Lanciano, 700’s AD - The Heart and Blood of Jesus - the oldest documented Miracle of the Eucharist in the History of the Church - The Host turned into Flesh - the Wine turned in Blood Offida, 1273 - An amazing account of how Jesus combatted Witchcraft through a Miracle of the Eucharist -...

Chapters include: Heloise - Love, Joan of Arc - Heroic Women, Saint Theresa - Religious Enthusiasm, Madame de Maintenon - The Political Woman, Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough - The Woman of the World, Madame Recamier - The Woman of Society, Madame de Stael - Woman in Literature, Hannah More - Education of Woman, and George Eliot - Woman as Novelist.

The first inquiry we naturally make is in regard to the various religious systems which were accepted by the ancient nations, since religion, in some form or other, is the most universal of institutions, and has had the earliest and the greatest influence on the condition and life of peoples--that...

One of the links in the history of civilization is the reign of Constantine, not unworthily called the Great, since it would be difficult to find a greater than he among the Roman emperors, after Julius Caesar, while his labors were by far more beneficent. A new era began with his illustrious reign,--the...

The Middle Ages produced no more interesting man than Anselm, Abbot of Bec and Archbishop of Canterbury,--not merely a great prelate, but a great theologian, resplendent in the virtues of monastic life and in devotion to the interests of the Church. He was one of the first to create an intellectual...

When did we stop singing this love song to our country? It was so subtle; did it just sort of disappear with many of the other patriotic traditions that our country stood for? How many of us still remember this song, reminding us of the price paid by our fathers--the hopes and dreams of our ancestors,...

Devotion to the Child Jesus in Scripture The Child Jesus in the Holy Land Baby Jesus Brings Presents Infant of Prague - Czech Republic Santo Nino de Atocha - Spain and Mexico Divino Nino of Bogota - Colombia Santo Bambino in Aracoeli - Altar of Heaven - Italy Santo Bambino di Lama dei Peligni - Italy Each...

BnF collection ebooks - "Me voilà donc rentré dans le monde fragile de l'homme. Je l'avais quitté depuis si longtemps que je l'avais oublié ; l'humaine argile pèse de nouveau sur moi ; – j'ai trop tôt perdu l'immortelle vision qui suspendait mes terrestres douleurs ; avec elle j'ai traversé...

On the 18th March 1314, in Paris, Jacques de Molay, Grand Master of the Knights Templar, and Geoffroi de Charney, preceptor of the Knights Templar in Normandy, are led to the stake. Before the pyre at their feet is set alight, Jacques de Molay speaks to the watching crowd, proclaiming a curse on those...

It has been my object in these Lectures to give the substance of accepted knowledge pertaining to the leading events and characters of history; and in treating such a variety of subjects, extending over a period of more than six thousand years, each of which might fill a volume, I have sought to present...

First published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Composed by Alfred Tennyson as a requiem for his college friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1833, "In Memoriam A. H. H." is a poem written over a seventeen year period and completed in 1849. Widely considered as one of the greatest poems of the Victorian era it...