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Sep 4 Croatia, Fascism, Catholics & Orthodox

Today in 1941, the abbot of the Sisatovac monastery in Croatia, Rafailo Momcilovic would die, he had been kidnapped by the Ustaše on 25...

Sep 8, 20214 min read

Sep 3 The Heliand - Old Norse Epic Poem about the life of Christ

Today in 1830 the first complete edition of the Heliand was published by Johann Andreas Schmeller. This was a ninth century epic poem...

Sep 8, 20215 min read

Sep 2 Seraphim Rose - American Orthodox Ascetic

Today we we go back to year 1982 and travel to Redding in Northern California where Seraphim Rose an American priest-monk of the Russian...

Sep 2, 20214 min read

Sep 1 Fr Dowling's Spiritual Exercises and the AA movement

Edward Dowling was born today in 1898. He would be ordained a priest and become the advisor to Bill Wilson who founded Alcoholic...

Sep 2, 20214 min read

Aug 31 - Grunewald, Artist of the Crucifixion

Today we remember the German Renaissance painter Matthias Grunewald who died in 1528. Now famous for his religious art that display...

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