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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?

Today's installment concludes The Council of Trent and the Counter-Reformation,our selection by Adolphus W. Ward.If you have journeyed through

Meanwhile the remaining decrees, both of doctrine and of discipline, were eagerly pushed on.Continuing The Council of Trent and the