Archives for 2014

Death of Polycarp

According to the horrid custom of the times the executioners were about to fasten his hands to the stake by spikes, when he begged that he might be

This series has five easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: Irenaeus Observations.The Roman emperor Antoninus Pius, who died A.D.

This discourse certainly did honor to the good sense of France.Today's installment concludes Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges,the name of our

The Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges had a little defect; it was radically null; for every contract is null which is not consented to by both of the

Thus the Western Church once more exhibited the spectacle of a "house divided against itself," as during the scandalous strife between the synods of

The Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges embraces twenty-three articles.Continuing Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges,with a selection from A History of the

This series has five easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: Catholic Church Is Split.So, what does “Pragmatic Sanction”mean, anyway?

March 26, 2014 1 Comment

http://gty.im/590130640Today's installment concludes Battle of Metaurus,our selection from The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from

The tactics of the Roman legions had not yet acquired that perfection which they received from the military genius of Marius, and which we read of in