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5 days ago · Cecil Frances Alexander was born in April 1818 at 25 Eccles Street, Dublin, Ireland, and died on October 12 (the day of her commemoration in the Anglican Church’s calendar) in 1895 in Derry, Ireland. She began writing verse as a child. Her books include Verses for Holy Seasons, The Lord of the Forest and his Vassals (a children’s allegory ...
Oct 8, 2024 · From gripping TV series like Preacher to diamonds in the rough, just waiting to be discovered, this list is sure to please fans of the gritty, yet imaginative storytelling that made Preacher such a hit.
4 days ago · The last six scenes show Francis’s funeral rites and the miracles that followed his death. In the scene above, Giotto paints Francis lying on the ground, as he requested to be buried simply and without a coffin. One brother looks up to see him among the angels.
St. Robert Bellarmine was a Jesuit, cardinal, and a great preacher. He is a Doctor of the Church and patron saint of Catechists. HIs remains can be found at the Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola at Campus Martius in Rome. St. Robert Bellarmine died on September 17, 1621.
6 days ago · Smith Wigglesworth (1859—1947) was a British preacher who was influential in the early Pentecostal movement. Wigglesworth, along with Charles Parham in the U.S., was one of the first preachers to espouse and practice the teachings of Pentecostalism, particularly faith healing and the gift of tongues as evidence of the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
4 days ago · Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8, 1911 – August 16, 1938) was an American blues musician and songwriter. His landmark recordings in 1936 and 1937 display a combination of singing, guitar skills, and songwriting talent that has influenced later generations of musicians.
3 days ago · Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African American teenager who was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store.
