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Death: Knights Templar Hid the Shroud of Turin
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The Face of the Goddess: Book 13. Wednesday, July 8, 2009. Knights Templar Hid the Shroud of Turin. Reported earlier this year that the Knights Templar hid and secretly venerated The Holy Shroud of Turin for more than 100 years after the Fourth Crusade. The Vatican made the announcement in April, apparently clearing up the mystery where the shroud had been after the sack of Constantinople in 1204. In 2003 Dr. Frale, the Vatican’s medieval specialist, unearthed the record of the trial of the Tem...After t...
1themagician.blogspot.com
The Magician: June 2009
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The Face of the Goddess: Book 1. Tuesday, June 30, 2009. A Byway Ancient Rome 1884, also known as Winding the Distaff by John William Waterhouse (1830-1905). This is the annual bad writing contest from San Jose State, named for Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton. He began his 1830 novel "Paul Clifford" with the often quoted words: "It was a dark and stormy night ." This year's winners. Include David McKenzie, 55, of Federal Way, Wash., who penned:. Sunday, June 21, 2009. Tuesday, June 2, 2009. With a Roman...
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Temperance: Temperance - the Christian virtue
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The Face of the Goddess: Book 14. Wednesday, June 3, 2009. Temperance - the Christian virtue. Dominican Father Donagh O'Shea offers an essay on Temperance at Jacob's Well,. Noting that "The word temperance doesn’t have a very inspiring ancestry; it comes from the Latin 'temperare', which means 'to mix', and it is related to the word 'tamper'.". So, he asks, how can it be a virtue at all? He begins his answer with Paul - a good place for a Christian to begin:. Temperance, as I said, is one of the fruits o...
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The Wheel of Fortune: July 2009
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The Wheel of Fortune. The Face of the Goddess: Book 10. Wednesday, July 8, 2009. Unedited excerpts from a Yahoo chronology. For the tenth century:. 901 The Magyars raided Carinthia ( the western part of modern Austria). 902 The Saracens conquered Taormina, the last stronghold on the island controlled by the Roman (Byzantine) Empire. Most of the island had fallen to the Saracens by 859. 913 The Magyars raided Saxony, Thuringia, and Swabia. 918 Rollo, lord of the Vikings near Rouen, invited the monks of St...
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The Devil: July 2009
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The Face of the Goddess: Book 15. Wednesday, July 8, 2009. 1439 The French Parlement made the Pragmatic Sanction a statute for France. 1453 The English were expelled from France entirely, except for Calais (end of the Hundred Years War). 1478-80 A severe outbreak of plague in Europe. Perhaps 15% of the population of England, France, and the Netherlands were killed. 1498 The government of Florence hanged and burned Girolamo Savonarola (see 1494). Pope Alexander VI (1492-1503) had excommunicated him in...
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The Lightning-Struck Tower: July 2009
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The Face of the Goddess: Book 16. Wednesday, July 8, 2009. Excerpts from Yahoo's chronology:. 1502 Publication of the Apocalypsis Nova, which predicted the coming of an angelic pope, who would be preceded by holy men. 1503 Julius II (1503-13) became pope. While a cardinal, Julius had sired three daughters. 1506 On 18 April, Pope Julius II (1503-13) laid the foundation stone for the new St. Peter’s. The basilica was completed in 1615. 1512 In May, the Holy League of Spain, Venice, the German empire, Engla...
