Passages of history, wonder and spiritual counsel, drawn from the Bible and from the lives of the saints and martyrs, with a special attention to those of the British isles.
The Pharisees conspire to put Jesus in a seemingly impossible
situation, by inviting him to take sides in the bitter politics of Jew and Roman.
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The Lord Is My Shepherd
FromThe Authorized Version
King David expresses his trust in God in terms remembered
from his years as a shepherd boy.
27
St John Port Latin
ByJacobus de VoragineAndWilliam Caxton
According to an ancient tradition, the Roman authorities banished St John the
Divine to the island of Patmos because they were quite unable to kill him.
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Why Rome Persecuted the Christians
ByJacobus de VoragineAndWilliam Caxton
If only the primitive Christians had filled in the right forms and
said that one man’s god is as good as another’s, they wouldn’t have had to die.
29
Fire and Ice
FromThe Old English GenesisTranslated byAlbert Stanburrough Cook
When the angels rebelled against their Maker, they demanded a
kingdom of their own in a land without him — and he gave them what they wanted.
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The Annunciation to Mary
FromThe Authorized Version
An angel appeared to Mary in her home in Nazareth, and offered her the
chance to be part of nothing less than the reopening of the doors of Paradise.
