Daily Medieval

There were several religious councils held at Braga, the 11th of which took place as late as 1566. The illustration is Braga at the time of ...

Adomnán of Iona (also known as Eunan) was born about 627 CE in what is now County Donegal. We do not know a lot of details of his life befor...

Start typing the word "venerable" into a search engine on the Internet and one of the options offered will be "venerable Bede...

Easter is the "floatiest" of floating holidays in the Western calendar. The 7th century saw a very serious debate over how the da...

This blog has touched on the debate over the date of Easter in the past, but the truth is that the early Church went through different phase...