St. Thomas the Apostle's Biography Thomas was born in the early 1st century CE in Galilee, a region in the Roman province of Judea surrounding the Sea of Galilee. Although the Jewish people and government once controlled the region, by the time of Thomas' birth, Judea was controlled by ...
Biography of Saint Peter Saint Peter (late 1st century BC – 64 AD) was an apostle of Jesus Christ and the first leader of his Church. He was born in Bethsaida, Galilee, Israel. He worked as a fisherman on the Sea of Galilee, usually with his brother Andrew, who was also an apostle...
1.(Biography) SirGeorge Paget,son of Joseph John Thomson. 1892–1975, British physicist, who discovered (1927) the diffraction of electrons by crystals: shared the Nobel prize for physics 1937 2.(Biography)James.1700–48, Scottish poet. He anticipated the romantics' feeling for nature inThe Se...
Philip the Apostle's Biography Philip the Disciple's Role in Christianity Philip in the Bible: Archaeological Evidence Lesson Summary Frequently Asked Questions What is Philip the Apostle the patron saint of? Philip serves as a patron saint of pastry chefs in Catholicism because of his role in ...
Michael Lennon knew Mailer for 35 years, and in this definitive biography, he had the cooperation of Mailer’s late widow, Norris Church, his ex-wives, and all of his children, as well as his sister, Barbara. He also had access to Mailer’s vast, unpublished correspondence and papers, ...
One entry in the Mario Quiz Cards asks players who Graham was, with the back of the card featuring a photo and short biography of her. Mehmet[edit]Mehmed II (Ottoman Turkish: محمد ثانى, Meḥmed-i s̱ānī; Turkish: II. Mehmed), also known as Mehmed the ...
Thomas Aquinas. Foley made quick work of his follow-up, just published by the same: The Mysteries of the Mass by Pope Innocent III (†1216). Innocent is of course the great medieval pontiff who, inter alia, presided over the Fourth Lateran Council and approved the new mendicant religious...
"O son of such an one, remember the faith you professed on earth to the very Last; this is your witness that there is no deity but God, and that certainly Muhammad is His Apostle, and that Paradise and Hell and the Resurrection from the dead are real; that there will be a Day of...
Here’s an intriguing biography of a 19th century Scottish missionary, Alexander Somerville. The following passage is illustrative of the visitation evangelism promoted in the Church of Scotland and also performed by his colleagues, the Bonar brothers and Robert Murray M’Cheyne: The Students’ Missio...
Polemic as Piety: Thomas Stapleton's Tres Thomae and Catholic Controversy in the 1580s This article examines the triple biography of Thomas the Apostle, Thomas Becket and Thomas More, published by Thomas Stapleton in 1588 and generally regarded as a work of pious hagiography. By focusing on the...