This article presents a historical perspective of the life of Mary, mother of Jesus Christ. Mary, or Miriam as she was actually called, is theorized to have been born in Nazareth during Herod the Great's rule. Mary was similar to about 90% of the population ...
It is also this anonymous person who was present in the tomb when the women came early on Sunday morning and was the one mistaken by Mary Magdalene as the gardener. Later this same man visited the disciples on the road to Emmaus, at the seashore and in Galilee. The disciples mistook this...
The Whitecoats saw action at the sieges of Hull and Gainsborough as well in 1644 of York – when they were being besieged and repulsed the Parliamentarian forces when they breached the walls at St Mary’s Tower by mining it. The tide had turned against the Royalists in 1644 when the Sc...
414, the church became incorporated within the city’s defences, but retained the name Chora. The name must have carried symbolic meaning, as the mosaics in the narthex describe Christ as the Land of the Living and Mary, the Mother of Jesus, as the Container of the Uncontainable The majorit...
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize,Angle of Reposeis a fascinating family history based on the true story of Mary Hallock Foote. 14.The Persian Boy, Mary Renault (1972) Bagoas, a young Persian living in the 4th century, is captured, castrated, and sold as a slave to King Darius III. Bagoas...
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8 km. Catholic and Muslim shrine, where Mary, the mother of Jesus is believed to have been taken to this stone house by St.John and lived there until her Assumption. It has been visited by several popes, most recent in 2006 by Pope Benedict XVI. ...
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One interesting trivia tidbit is that Janus – January became the first month in the Gregorian calendar, instead of March. (That does explain the Biblical story of Jesus’ birth when the lambs were being delivered. That happens in the Spring, not in December and January.) ...
Self-castration on religious grounds is referred to in the Bible in the Gospel of Matthew 19, 12. Here Jesus of Nazareth (4 BC–30 AC) tells his disciples: “For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother’s womb; and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs...