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Showing posts with label St. Helena. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St. Helena. Show all posts
Friday, April 29, 2022

Hautvillers

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Hautvillers is a commune in northeastern France. In 650 the Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter (in French it was the Abbaye Saint-Pierre d'...
Tuesday, January 25, 2022

St. Æthelwold

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Æthelwold was born about 910CE to a wealthy Winchester family. He served at the court of King Æthelstan (reigned 924-939), learning as much ...
Monday, January 17, 2022

The True Cross—Found!

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Empress Helena of Constantinople went to Palestine from 326-328CE to find Christian relics, consistent with her recent conversion to Christi...
Saturday, January 15, 2022

The True Cross

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 The "True Cross" refers to the cross upon which Jesus of Nazareth was crucified. Although it would have been of ordinary wood, Cl...
Monday, August 17, 2015

The Tomb of the Three

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The Shrine of the Three Kings The Three Kings, or Magi, appear suddenly in the Gospel of Matthew and just as quickly disappear. That pa...
Sunday, January 6, 2013

The True Cross

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Relic of True Cross at Cortona, near Florence Yesterday's post told of Empress (later Saint) Helena, the mother of the Emperor Const...
Saturday, January 5, 2013

St. Helena

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Yesterday's post mentioned a nail from Christ's cross that had been possessed by the Emperor Constantine (c.272-337), the first Chri...
Friday, January 4, 2013

The Iron Crown of Lombardy

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The Eastern Emperor Justinian's (482-565 CE) attempt to conquer the Western Empire left it bruised and open to invasion. The Lombard Kin...