The Scholar Who Challenged the Church
On July 12, 1536, Desiderius Erasmus… Continue reading The Scholar Who Challenged the Church
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A Mob and a Boy
The next morning, June 15, 1381, Richard took the sacrament and rode out to face the rebels. Continue reading A Mob and a Boy
The Cautious Reformer
Desiderius Erasmus, born in 1466 in Rotterdam, Holland, was the illegitimate son of a priest. He was orphaned in childhood, swindled out of his inheritance, and forced into a monastery that he hated—except for its library. Reaching adulthood, Erasmus approached … Continue reading The Cautious Reformer
The Thirty Years’ War
Meanwhile, White Mountain wasn’t the end of the war, but its beginning. Continue reading The Thirty Years’ War
Book of Martyrs
John Foxe entered Oxford still a boy. He was eventually elected a fellow of Magdalen College, and from 1539 to 1545 he studied church history. He converted to Protestantism and was forced to resign his academic position as a result. … Continue reading Book of Martyrs
World’s Smallest Sovereign State Born
The story of the papacy in the 1800s was a story of riches to rags. When Pope Pius IX was crowned in 1846, the church owned the Papal States (17,000 square miles of Italian territory) as well as parts of … Continue reading World’s Smallest Sovereign State Born
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