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The Pope’s Crusade

Most people are familiar with The Crusades, a series of religious wars initiated by the Catholic Church in the Holy Land between 1095 and 1291. But fewer are as familiar with the Albigensian crusade, directed by Pope Innocent III.  In 1209, he ordered Christian armies against fellow Christians in the south of France. The catalyst […]

Stigmatics: Saints or charlatans?

The story behind the stigmata The first recorded stigmatic was Saint Francis of Assisi, who received the stigmata – the wounds of Christ – on his hands and feet during a religious ecstasy in 1224. But most stigmatics throughout history have been women. In the fourteenth century, Catherine of Siena, a mystic and laywoman, is reputed to have lived for long […]