No Greater Love
Mary Ann Rogers was born on 14 February 1855 to James and Sophia Foxwell. Continue reading No Greater Love
Mary Ann Rogers was born on 14 February 1855 to James and Sophia Foxwell. Continue reading No Greater Love
Thomas Coram was born in Lyme Regis, Dorset, England. At 11 years old he was sent to sea. Therefore, he was never afforded a proper education. In 1694, he settled in what is now Dighton, Massachusetts, then part of Taunton. For ten years Thomas lived … Continue reading Coram, the Children’s Champion
Henry Garnet (or Garnett) was born some time around July 1555 at Heanor in Derbyshire, the son of Brian Garnet (or Garnett) and Alice (née Jay). He had at least five siblings: two brothers, Richard and John, and three sisters, Margaret, Eleanor, … Continue reading Catesby’s Gunpowder Plot
The family eventually named their ghost “Old Jeffrey.” Continue reading Old Jeffrey
According to church tradition, however, when Cuthbert’s relics were raised, it was found that his body had not decayed. Continue reading Cuthbert
Originally named Konon; Leo III was born on c. 685 in Germanikeia in the Syrian province of Commagene (modern Kahramanmaraş in Turkey). Little is known about his childhood but according to the Byzantine chronicler Theophanes, have claimed that Konon’s family had been resettled in Thrace, where he entered the … Continue reading Leo III the Isaurian
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