On October 4, 1582, the Gregorian calendar entered into force, which we still use today almost all over the world. “Stealing” 10 days to put online the calculation of the time of the previous calendar and the duration of the calendar year. On October 4, 1582
The Dead Sea Manuscripts (or Dead Sea Scrolls) are a collection of manuscripts found near the Dead Sea. These include various collections of texts, including the Manuscripts of Qumran, which constitute one of the most important parts of it. The Dead Sea scrolls are comp
The crown of the Holy Roman Empire (in German Reichskrone) is the crown of the King of the Romans, ruler of the Holy Roman Empire, since the High Middle Ages. The crown was probably made in western Germany under Ottone I with additions from Corrado II, entirely under Co
Blessed Beatrice I is commonly known as Blessed Beatrice D’Este, whose body is found in the Cathedral of Este. Beatrice I was born in 1192 and died on May 10, 1226 on Monte Gemmola: in fact, on May 10, is the anniversary of her death, and is remembered on the Padua li
Verona’s Biblioteca Capitolare is an institution famous for the antiquity and preciousness of its manuscripts, so much so that the paleographer Elias Avery Lowe (1879-1969) defined it as “the queen of the Ecclesiastical collections.” In comparison with other libra
Tsutomu Yamaguchi is a hibakusha. Thus, in Japan, atomic bomb survivors are called. The extraordinary, in the already extraordinary story of this man who is 93 years old today, is that Yamaguchi is a hibakusha twice. Yes, because he was in Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, wh
A collapse due to exhaustion: testimonies of Austro-Hungarian prisoners and deserters The danubian empire, besieged and exhausted, ended up with the lack of human resources to promptly replace the victims of the bloody oozing and to rest the exhausted survivors of years
Blessed Beatrice II was born in the castle of Calaone, and founded the Benedictine monastery of San Antonio in Polesine. The existing monastery, with 19 nuns, is located in the center of Ferrara. The nuns live in seclusion. Some mistakenly believe that she was born in F
The National Museum, a Trust of the Government, is an educational, scientific and cultural institution that acquires, documents, preserves, exhibits, and fosters scholarly study and public appreciation of works of art, specimens, and cultural and historical artifacts re
Perhaps not everyone knows one of the Saints most loved by children. This is why we propose the History of Saint Lucia here. Saint Lucia was born at the end of the third century by a rich and noble family from Syracuse. Unfortunately, she was an unfortunate child: her f
An American pilgrim filmed a Eucharistic miracle that took place in Venezuela On 8 December 1991, a priest was celebrating Mass at the shrine of Bethany in Cúa, Venezuela. After the consecration, he noticed that the Host was beginning to bleed to one side. The priest i
By Christmas truce (German: Weihnachtsfrieden; French: Trêve de Noël) we mean a series of unofficial “ceasefires” that occurred in the days around Christmas 1914 in various areas of the western front of the First World War. Although no official agreement b
February 4, 1912 the first parachute video was also the first death filmed by a camera The parachute tailor, the death of a pioneer On February 4 of a hundred years ago, Franz Reichelt threw himself from the Eiffel tower to experiment with a parachute of his own inventi
Of them only the Gospel of Matthew speaks and says that they were astronomers, or in any case experts of stars, who came from the East and who brought gold, frankincense and myrrh to the newborn Jesus. In addition we know that every year, on January 6, the feast of the
In Leicester, under the remains of the ancient convent of Greyfriars, where there is now a parking lot, a skeleton was found to belong to Richard III, King of England. After almost a year of study, researchers at the University of Leicester managed to extract a DNA samp
L’histoire du grand peintre dans la première rétrospective depuis 1963 Un tableau géant pour une exposition riche, plein d’œuvres extra-large: tout est grand au Louvre pour la rétrospective « Delacroix (1798-1863) », ouvert au public du 30 Mars au 23
Blessed Beatrice I is commonly known as Blessed Beatrice D’Este, whose body is found in the Cathedral of Este. Beatrice I was born in 1192 and died on May 10, 1226 on Monte Gemmola: in fact, on May 10, is the anniversary of her death, and is remembered on the Padua li
Millions of rats, scattered throughout the battlefields to devour corpses, and during the evening attacking soldiers, injuring them and eating their supplies, a real nightmare that grew and expanded more and more with the corpses of men and animals abandoned on the grou
Seven years after Francesco’s gesture of stripping off his clothes, Chiara of the noble and rich Offreducci family flees home to join him at the Porziuncola where the Poverello makes her hair cut and wear the Franciscan habit. Then he took refuge in the Church of
THE ABBEY OF SAN GALGANO. The complex, formed by the hermitage called “Rotonda di Montesiepi” and the great abbey now in ruins, is located in the municipality of Chiusdino, about thirty kilometers from Siena. The foundation of the site revolves around the co
Are there still little-known aspects of Hitler’s life? here they are 1- The mustache? Fashionable. Squared mustache, officer whip and raincoat tight at the waist: these are the elements of Adolf Hitler’s look. But his was not so much a personal choice of sty
It seems impossible but … This is a true story. In 1915, the Russian Empire entered the First World War for 7 months and started the Caucasus campaign against the Ottoman Empire. Imagine you are inhabitants of Tiflis (today’s Tblisi) in Georgia: it is a spri
An American pilgrim filmed a Eucharistic miracle that took place in Venezuela On 8 December 1991, a priest was celebrating Mass at the shrine of Bethany in Cúa, Venezuela. After the consecration, he noticed that the Host was beginning to bleed to one side. The priest i
The first examples of “holy bodies” date back to the fourth century, when relics generally found in Palestine were spread in Christian circles by faithful or by exponents of the clergy; subsequently, in the ninth century, under the reign of Charlemagne, a mo
Millions of rats, scattered throughout the battlefields to devour corpses, and during the evening attacking soldiers, injuring them and eating their supplies, a real nightmare that grew and expanded more and more with the corpses of men and animals abandoned on the grou
Seven years after Francesco’s gesture of stripping off his clothes, Chiara of the noble and rich Offreducci family flees home to join him at the Porziuncola where the Poverello makes her hair cut and wear the Franciscan habit. Then he took refuge in the Church of
In Leicester, under the remains of the ancient convent of Greyfriars, where there is now a parking lot, a skeleton was found to belong to Richard III, King of England. After almost a year of study, researchers at the University of Leicester managed to extract a DNA samp
Works for the restoration of Pompeii excavations will soon begin. The House of the Dioscuri and the Cryptoporticus are among the five Domus that will undergo interventions of safety, against the hydrogeological risk and infiltration of the underworld. The whole project
The National Museum, a Trust of the Government, is an educational, scientific and cultural institution that acquires, documents, preserves, exhibits, and fosters scholarly study and public appreciation of works of art, specimens, and cultural and historical artifacts re
The term “gold of Dongo” commonly refers to all the assets owned by Benito Mussolini, Claretta Petacci and the hierarchs in his wake at the time of capture, on the morning of April 27, 1945, just outside the town of Musso; these values were largely sei
Although the practice may seem unusual, at that time it was very common, and is defined as: Mos Teutonicus. “In the way of the Germans”, and provided for the complete boiling of the corpse until the meat was stripped, which were buried on the spot or preserv
MESSAGE FROM HELL, MANUSCRIPT FOUND FROM A NUN In the papers of a young German girl, Clara, dead religious, this manuscript was found. The superior of the monastery published it. Although short, this letter went around the world in a flash and made numerous conversions.
Bragadìn, Marcantonio. – Venetian governor of Cyprus (Venice 1523 – Famagosta 1571); after having held various internal offices in the Venetian Republic, he was governor of Cyprus when the Turks landed on the island (June 1570). After the fall of Nic
Copy of an Oration letter, found in the Holy Sepulchre of Our Lord Jesus Christ in Jerusalem, kept in a silver box by his Holiness the Pope and by Emperors and Empresses of the Christian Faith. Saint Elizabeth, the Queen of Hungary, Saint Mathilda and Saint Brigida, who
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