Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna was a grand-daughter of Queen Victoria, but to one ordinary Russian she was simply ‘dear Elizabeth’.

Three highly decorated officers in the Roman Army fall victim to a campaign to discredit them.

Trouble comes to the town of Myra when Imperial soldiers are despatched to put down a revolt.

The way St Cuthbert found water for his island retreat confirmed that Northumbria’s church was the real thing.

The Northumbrian monk was touched by two thieving birds who repented of their misdeeds.

Bede is reminded of another great Christian saint when St Cuthbert shoos some troublesome crows from his barley crop.