Today in 1715 the Benedictine monk and cellar Master Dom Pierre Perignon died at the age of 77. He did not invent the sparkling white...

The Jesuit priest Benito Vines spent decades observing the skies at the Belen Observatory in colonial Cuba. He is now seen as a pioneer...

Swithun, the Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Winchester died today. It is difficult to get reliable historical facts about him, but he still has a...