

The Death of St Benedict
In the Byzantine tradition, Pope St Gregory I is given the epithet “Διάλογος – the Dialogist.” This comes from a collection of stories of the
In the Byzantine tradition, Pope St Gregory I is given the epithet “Διάλογος – the Dialogist.” This comes from a collection of stories of the
March 15th, the Ides of March in the ancient Roman dating system, is of course the single most famous date in ancient Roman history, the
On this day in the year 840, one of the biographers of Charlemagne, a man named Einhard, died at the age of roughly 65. (His
Yesterday was the anniversary of the death of Pope St Gregory I in the year 604, after a reign of 13½ years. His feast was
In the Eastern churches, among the most famous of the early martyrs is a group of forty soldiers who died for the Faith during the
On Tuesday, we looked at the Passion of Ss Perpetua and Felicity, one of the most important surviving accounts of an early Christian martyrdom. The
On this day in the year 203 AD, two young women named Perpetua and Felicity were martyred in the arena at Carthage. Their feast is
As we noted two days ago, eight of the twelve books of St John Cassian’s Institutes for Monasteries treat of the principal vices which monks