Daily Medieval

Double monasteries, such as the one mentioned in this post , was a monastery that combined two communities, one of men and one of women. The...

Pope Innocent I was an early-5th century Italian pope. The Liber Pontificalis ["Book of Popes"] says he was the son of a man wh...

Coptic Icon of St. Mark Coptic Christians have suddenly been in the news, from a centuries-old fragment of papyrus with a supposed refer...

His feast day is Leap Day, so he's celebrated only every 4 years. He is revered in the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic ...