

The Chains of St Peter
Today is the tradition date of a feast which is called in Latin “Sancti Petri ad Vincula”, translated literally as “(the feast of) St Peter
Today is the tradition date of a feast which is called in Latin “Sancti Petri ad Vincula”, translated literally as “(the feast of) St Peter
St Lawrence of Brindisi was born on July 22nd, the feast of St Mary Magdalene, in 1559, and died on the same day in 1619,
Today marks the anniversary of the death of His Holiness Pope Leo XIII in 1903. According to an ancient tradition, St Peter had been Pope
During the night between July 18 and 19 of the year 64 A.D., there broke out the great fire of Rome, which would eventually wipe
On this day in the year 1013 was born one of the greatest scholars of the Middle Ages, the Benedictine monk now known as the
July 15th is the traditional date of a feast known as the “Divisio Apostolorum – the Division (or ‘Dispersion’) of the Apostles.” This feast is first
Today is the anniversary of the birth in 1454 of one of the great Latin and Greek scholars of the Florentine Renaissance, Angelo Poliziano. His
Yesterday we marked the anniversary of Julius Caesar’s birth in 100 B.C. Following the Roman calendar then in use (which he would later significantly reform),