Daily Medieval

Yesterday's post on Saint Endellion alluded to her siblings also being saints. One of them, her brother Nectan (c.468 - 510), had a lif...

In 1095 CE, Gaston of Valloire (or of Dauphiné) founded a religious order, sanctioned by Pope Urban II (who also called for the First Crusad...

When the relics of St. Geneviève were paraded through there streets of Paris in 1129 during an outbreak of St. Anthony's fire, they seem...

The port at Benghazi, where it all began Benghazi has been much in the news lately. As with any part of the Eastern Hemisphere, it has b...

St. Anthony the Great is credited with being the first monk in that he did not just live an ascetic life, but also he removed himself fro...

The Classical and Middle Ages generated more Saints Anthony that you can shake a crozier at: Anthony of Antioch (d.302) Anthony the Hermi...