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From the Founding of the City: :A fall of stones
A fall of stones in a military context occurs in the middle of the sixth century, when the Abyssinian Army, laying siege to Mecca, was put..

Stanislav Farada
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Condemned to die at the stake: Saint Polycarp, the bishop of Smyrna
One of the earliest Christian martyrdom for which an eyewitness account survives is that of Saint Polycarp, the bishop of Smyrna (today know

László Harkányi
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Mad Monday Discussions; Demonic Possession, Epilepsy, or Hysteria? Mystery behind the mystery
As far as many doctors and psychiatrists are concerned, the diagnosis of demonic possession is one that reeks of medieval superstition and..

Daily Strange
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Daily Strange's Sacred Saturday: The Plowboy Prophet
Robert Nixon, a rural visionary who, by reputation, was held to be mentally retarded, was born around 1467 on a farm in the county of...

Þorsteinn Bøving
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Daily Strange's Fearless Friday: Spectral Incursions
Those who scorn the idea that spooks and specters prowl and shimmer through the world do so because no one has so far caught a ghost in a...

Christiane Schilling
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Tricky Tuesday: A Holy Mystery - Saint Francis the Fire Handler
For some saints' immunity to fire seems to be a special mark of grace, while for a few less exalted men and women the same immunity seems a

László Harkányi
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