From Jesus, the Jews, the Crusades, Relics, Reformations, the Great Schism, 100’s of Saints, the Inquisition, Pilgrimages, Popes, and endless amounts of churches, there’s a lot to unpack in this section.
See Table- (Cambridge Factfinder p.420) Did you know? According to the Irish Almanac of 1998, despite lowering attendance Ireland still has the highest number of regular church goers per…
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The Antichrist An evil figure who will plague the world and ultimately be defeated by Christ in the battle of Armageddon. The Apocalypse Derived from the Greek word for revelation,…
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Contrary to popular belief she was not from Calcutta or India at all. Actually she was born Gonxha Agnes on August 26, 1910 in Skopje (present day Macedonia) to Albanian…
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Located in Prague’s Jewish quarter in the Czech Republic lies the oldest continuously working synagogue called the Staranova Synagogue completed in 1270 AD. In a bizarre and ironic turn of…
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Westminster Abbey in London Notre Dame in Paris-Built from 1163 to 1340 in the Gothic style, the site of one of Joan of Arc’s trial was held there in 1455…
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Well those of you without a case of the ABC’s as we call them (Another Bloody Church syndrome) may enjoy visiting the following top 5 largest churches of Europe. 1 …
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Church as a building used for public Christian worship. According to Oxford’s Essential Dictionary, it comes from the old English word ‘cir(i)ce’ or ‘cyr(i)ce’ related to the Dutch word kirk…
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The inquisition was a violent and systematic effort established by the Roman Catholic church to seek out and punish heretics (people who opposed Church teachings or held non-Christian belies). Many…
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The Counter Reformation was an internal reform conducted within the Catholic Church that developed as Catholics reacted to the growing criticisms brought on by the Protestant Reformation. One of their…
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The Protestant Reformation was a religious movement begun in the early 1500’s that divided western Christianity into the Roman Catholic Church and the Protestantism. Priests at the time challenged the…
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The Great Schism was a papal feud that had erupted between Avignon and Rome for papal supremacy. Many people do not realize that Avignon, France was the seat of power…
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The Crusades were a series of medieval military expeditions to the Holy Lands of the Bible by several European countries with the intention to recover land and territories from the…
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