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Only the wisest know that the cross is the symbol of the Lord in Heaven, Jesus Christ. Constantine is baptized and becomes a devout Christian , due to his experience. He learns from the Bible how and where Christ was killed, so he orders Helen, his mother, to lead an army to the land of the Jews to find where the true cross is buried.
After having professed her vows in 1633, [6] she changed her name to Marie de L'Incarnation; [7] that Christmas, she recounted a powerful vision, which functioned as the catalyst for her mission to New France. In this mystical dream, Guyart saw herself walking hand in hand with a fellow laywoman against the backdrop of a foreign landscape.
This poem reworks verses extracted from the work of Virgil to tell stories from the Old and New Testament of the Christian Bible. Much of the work focuses on the story of Jesus Christ. While scholars have proposed a number of hypotheses to explain why the poem was written, a definitive answer to this question remains elusive.
The first name was promised to her at nine, by Mother Marie de Gonzague, of the Child Jesus, and was given to her on her entry to the convent. In itself, veneration of the childhood of Jesus was a Carmelite heritage of the seventeenth century – it concentrated upon the staggering humiliation of divine majesty in assuming the shape of extreme ...
The modern French language does not have a significant stress accent (as English does) or long and short syllables (as Latin does). This means that the French metric line is generally not determined by the number of beats, but by the number of syllables (see syllabic verse; in the Renaissance, there was a brief attempt to develop a French poetics based on long and short syllables [see "musique ...
Maria Valtorta (14 March 1897 – 12 October 1961) was a Catholic Italian writer. She was a Franciscan tertiary and a lay member of the Servants of Mary who reported personal conversations with, and dictations from, Jesus Christ.
His name derives from the astrolabe, a Persian astronomical instrument said to elegantly model the universe [42] and which was popularized in France by Adelard. He is mentioned in Abelard's poem to his son, the Carmen Astralabium, and by Abelard's protector, Peter the Venerable of Cluny, who wrote to Héloise: "I will gladly do my best to ...
Pope Joan (Ioannes Anglicus, 855–857) is a woman who purportedly reigned as pope for two years during the Middle Ages. [1] Her story first appeared in chronicles in the 13th century and subsequently spread throughout Europe.