Extraordinary news arrives in the court. A hermit tells local authorities that he has seen supernatural lights shining in the countryside near Iria Flavia.
Pilgrimaging was, for a long time, a rather risky business. The roads were not precisely safe, going through unknown (and oftentimes openly hostile) lands.
Tradition has it that back in the year 708 Saint Aubert, the then bishop of Avranches, was visited several times by the Archangel Michael in his dreams. The Archangel repeatedly…
In the convoluted 8th century, a monk simply known as Beato, took up the banner of spiritual resistance. His work soon became the first best-seller of the Middle Ages.
Ignacio de Loyola, the founder of the powerful Society of Jesus, lived for two years as a beggar in Barcelona, near the Cathedral of Santa María del Mar. Find out…