The medieval is part of the mosaic of modern Australia. Our nation’s heritage on this island continent is full of it: in aesthetics, institutions, laws, languages, identities, moralities.
- Programme Director, The Europaeum, University of Oxford
Pell, often described as a conservative Catholic, was jailed for child sexual abuse in Australia in 2019 but maintained his innocence and was acquitted the following year.
Eclipsed by the more popular Saint Patrick, Gertrude of Nivelles is also celebrated today, a holy woman who somewhat inexplicably became the patron saint of cats.
Olga de Kiev est aujourd’hui reconnue comme l’une des plus grandes saintes de l’orthodoxie orientale. Son histoire sanguinaire, faite de défi et de vengeance, mérite d’être rappelée aujourd’hui.
Olga of Kyiv is today recognised as one of Eastern Orthodoxy’s greatest saints – and her bloodthirsty tale is one of defiance and vengeance, and worth remembering today.
2020, 2021 y quizás ahora 2022, han sido años muy malos, pero comparados con lo que ocurrió en 536, un año en el que confluyeron la erupción de volcanes, una peste, una hambruna y un invierno interminable, parecen muy poca cosa.
Science has made a strong case for the year 536 as being one of the worst in human history, a year punctuated by volcanic eruptions, drought, famine and plague - and a year long winter.
500 years after his death, we’re reflecting on the man who became a cardinal at just 13 – but he had made neither priest nor bishop before he was elected pope.
A public monument, a place of memory and a crumbling testament to how far we’ve come. A centuries old church in windy Suffolk, England, is a world away.
Did Pope Joan exist? Probably not. But the legend had important resonances for the Catholic Church.
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