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Jul 31, 20213 min read

July 31 Tsarist Troops storm Mount Athos

Today in 1913, Russian troops stormed the St Panteleimon Monastery on Mount Athos and deported about 80 Russian monks, Six months earlier...

Jul 5, 20218 min read

July 6 Mircea Eliade and the Eternal Return

Today we look at the life and thought of Mircea Eliade a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at...

Jun 2, 20215 min read

June 3 Hitler's Pope?

Today in 1946 Pope Pius XII was declared on Moscow radio to have been ‘Hitlers Pope’. Thirty years later, the head of Romania's spy...

May 6, 20213 min read

May 7 The Pope visits Romania, building bridges with the Orthodox

At the turn of the Millennium the first Slavic Pope, John Paul II made big steps towards reconciliation with the Orthodox Church. This...

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