The Rosary is a centuries-old way of praying. "Medieval piety in the West developed the prayer of the Rosary as a popular substitute for the Liturgy of the Hours." Although obviously Marian in ...

To be used to bless medals, small crucifixes, statues, or pictures that will be displayed elsewhere than in a church or chapel; scapulars, rosaries, and other articles used for religious devotions.

In his Essay on the Sea-Scurvy of 1753, Anthony Addington mapped out the horrific symptoms of the disease: ‘a low unequal Pulse … a pale-brown or livid Complexion, a Weakness and Swelling or sometimes ...

That Alexander von Humboldt was not dead by the age of thirty-five was a minor miracle. In 1794 he nearly suffocated while testing his miner’s lamp in a subterranean tunnel. The next year he subjected ...