Author : Nino Lo Bello
Publisher : Gramercy
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,13 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Popes
ISBN : 9780517220832
Which pope was a speed demon? What is the pope's salary? Here is a non-sacred treasure trove of fascinating, surprising, and little-known tidbits about the Vatican and the popes, not only for the 700 million Catholics in the world but also for people of other faiths. Includes a time-line of significant dates in Church history, and a glossary of Vatican terms.
Author : James Paterson
Publisher :
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 21,55 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Church history
ISBN :
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Page : 540 pages
File Size : 28,70 MB
Release : 1904
Category :
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Author : David Moloney
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 47,13 MB
Release : 2011-08-18
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1444717383
Fascinating facts, enlightening lists and random observations on our rich, historic and extraordinary faith
Author : David Farley
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 37,99 MB
Release : 2009-07-09
Category : Travel
ISBN : 110110497X
Read David Farley's posts on the Penguin Blog.A tour through the centuries and through a bizarre Italian town in search of an unbelievable relic: the foreskin of Jesus Christ In December 1983, a priest in the Italian hill town of Calcata shared shocking news with his congregation: the pride of their town, the foreskin of Jesus, had been stolen. Some postulated that it had been stolen by Satanists. Some said the priest himself was to blame. Some even pointed their fingers at the Vatican. In 2006, travel writer David Farley moved to Calcata, determined to find the missing foreskin, or at least find out the truth behind its disappearance. Farley recounts how the relic passed from Charlemagne to the papacy to a marauding sixteenth-century German solider before finally ending up in Calcata, where miracles occurred that made the sleepy town a major pilgrimage destination. Blending history, travel, and perhaps the oddest story in Christian lore, An Irreverent Curiosity is a weird and wonderful tale of conspiracy and misadventure.
Author : Bruce Gellerman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 37,9 MB
Release : 2008-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1461747228
Discover more than 200 of the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Bay State has to offer in this completely revised and updated edition.
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Page : 374 pages
File Size : 31,28 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Public libraries
ISBN :
Author : David Brandon
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 35,19 MB
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 144564844X
An informative and entertaining walking guide, encountering the oddities, curiosities and unknown history of some of London's most well-known and less-visited areas.
Author : Henry Robert Addison
Publisher :
Page : 1898 pages
File Size : 49,27 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Biography
ISBN :
An annual biographical dictionary, with which is incorporated "Men and women of the time."
Author : John Timbs
Publisher :
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 17,6 MB
Release : 1868
Category : East India House (London, England)
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