St Bede examines the connection between Passover and Easter, and shows how
the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ complete a pattern.
bySt Bede of Jarrow672-735
Lives of the Saints
‘Why Am I Still Lying Here?’
Cuthbert, struck down by plague, was vexed to find that his brethren had been
praying for him all the previous night.
bySt Bede of Jarrow672-735
Lives of the Saints
Cuthbert’s Christmas
One Christmas Eve back in the twelfth century, a monk keeping midnight vigil in
Lindisfarne priory watched spellbound as two great doors opened all by themselves.
paraphrased from an account byReginald of Durham?-?1190
Lives of the Saints
St John of Konitsa
Hassan slipped across to Ithaca because it was in British
hands and the Turkish authorities on the Greek mainland must not know what he was going to do.
Lives of the Saints
Educating Martin
When Sir Rodbert became Brother Martin, he found the change
so difficult that he began to wonder if even the saints were against him.
paraphrased from an account byReginald of Durham?-?1190
September 8, 1380
The Battle of Kulikovo
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Dmitri of the Don
Grand Duke Dmitri of Moscow loosened the grip of the Tartar Horde
on the people of Russia, but treachery robbed him of triumph.