As we noted yesterday, the traditional account of the martyrs of the Theban Legion has long been regarded as historically unreliable. However, more modern research
September 22 is traditionally the feast of a group of soldiers martyred in 287 A.D, known as the “Theban Legion” from the Egyptian city of
In addition to the feast of the Apostle and Evangelist St Matthew, in the usus antiquior of the Roman Rite, today is the first of
The word “laterculus”, the diminutive form of the third declension masculine noun “later – a brick”, is one of Latin’s most curious examples of semantic
Today marks the anniversary of the death of one of the most interesting characters in the history of the English people, a seventh-century archbishop of
As we noted on Wednesday, St Cyprian of Carthage was martyred on September 14th, 258, but his feast day is the 16th, bumped forward by
Devotion to the Sorrows of the Virgin Mary first emerged in German-speaking lands in the early 15th-century, partly as a counterweight to the iconoclasm of
Today marks the anniversary of the death of St Cyprian, bishop and martyr, in the year 258. His feast was originally kept on this date,
