epub |eng | | Author:Bird, Jessalynn; Peters, Edward; Powells, James M.

Ibn Wasil (ca. 1282): Frederick arrives at Acre IN 625/1228 the emperor Frederick arrived at Acre with a great company of Germans and other Franks. We have already described how ...

mobi |eng | 2010-04-20 | Author:Thomas Cahill

1 The phrase “the violent bear it away” fascinated the twentieth-century Irish-American storyteller Flannery O’Connor, who used it as the title of one of her novels. O’Connor’s surname connects her ...

epub |eng | 2009-06-08 | Author:Jonathan Phillips [Phillips, Jonathan]

THE SIEGE AND SACK OF BÉZIERS The main crusade continued to head relentlessly southward and soon it entered the lands of another man accused of harboring heretics: Raymond-Roger Trenceval, the ...

epub |eng | 2014-09-08 | Author:David Limbaugh [Limbaugh, David]

Christ’s Nature The Old Testament brims with predictions of the nature of Jesus Christ. He would be the Son of God (Psalms 2:7; 1 Chr. 17:11–14; 2 Samuel 7:12–16, fulfilled ...

mobi |eng | 1998-12-31 | Author:George, Timothy [George, Timothy]

Everyone sings, men and women, and it is a lovely sight. Each has a music book in his hand....As I looked on this little company of exiles, I wept, not ...

azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-03 | Author:Adam Nicolson

For these Puritans, and in a way we can scarcely understand now, the words of the scriptures were thought to provide a direct, almost intravenous access to the divine. Listen, ...

mobi |es | 2011-12-17 | Author:Michael Baigent; Richard Leigh; Henry Lincoln

Nicolás Fouquet Mazarino tenía otros enemigos aparte de los frondeurs y de la Compagnie du Saint-Sacrement. Uno de los más poderosos era Nicolás Fouquet, quien en 1653 se había convertido ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-16 | Author:Murphy, Cullen [Murphy, Cullen]

“Let’s Not Make a Jonah of Him” The long, haunting ordeal of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, one of the premier Catholic theologians of the twentieth century, began a little more ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1993-12-31 | Author:Thomas Cahill [Cahill, Thomas]

V A Solid World of Light Holy Ireland Patrick devoted the last thirty years of his life—from, roughly, his late forties to his late seventies—to his warrior children, that they ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-15 | Author:Tom Holland [Holland, Tom]

The Great War Around Easter, AD 600, the plague returned to Galilee. So virulently did the outbreak rage that it had soon spread beyond the Golan Heights and into the ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:D'Antonio, Michael [D'Antonio, Michael]

16. “WOULD A BISHOP LIE?” More than 125,000 people turned out to shiver and cheer and cry and laugh when John Paul II said Mass in Central Park on a ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-10-29 | Author:Thomas Cahill [Cahill, Thomas]

In stumbling upon this last insight, the brooding, often morose Luther confided that “I felt myself absolutely reborn, as though I had entered into the open gates of paradise itself.” ...

epub |eng | 2011-08-08 | Author:Stephen O'Shea

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN INTRIGUE IN THE ROUSSILLON ONE DAY SHORTLY AFTER EASTER IN 1304, two robed figures on horseback picked their way southward alongside the Mediterranean Sea. Once past the border ...

epub |eng | 2006-11-01 | Author:Ussher, James [Ussher, James]

3980. Dorylaus, with his eighty thousand (Plutarch and Appian) or with seventy thousand (Eutropius and Orosius) choice soldiers, joined his forces to those of Archelaus, who had only ten thousand ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:James M. Anderson [Anderson, James M.]

OCCUPATIONS Many household items were sold by itinerant vendors from door to door. From them the lady of the house could purchase candles, wood, ceramic or copper candleholders, candle snuffers, ...