Quevedo said… a single stone can collapse a building and the stone that we are dealing with, which was thrown with very bad milk, crumbled the Church and crushed its visible head, Pope Lucius II , who did not last a year on the throne of Saint Peter (March 12, 1144 to February 15, 1145) As ha
At the end of the 19th century, Joseph Stalin spent five years studying at the seminary in Tiflis. Did the bloody dictator really want to become a clergyman? Did the man who had thousands of popes and the destruction of the Russian Church on his conscience dreamed of becoming an Orthodox bishop? Or
Detroit is a medium-sized city in the north of the United States. A little over half a million inhabitants, located near the Great Lakes, on the border with Canada. At first glance, there is nothing really striking about it. But that is hugely deceptive. Because Detroit is the American city with pro
In 945 AD the great Arab general Saif al-Dawla created his own emirate based in Aleppo, becoming the main rival of the Byzantine Empire in the region of upper Syria. In the region, a continuous war was fought with raids and plundering on both sides. In the early summer of 960 AD. al-Daulah decide