KISSING THE STAKES

Kissing the Stakes On September 28, Latimer and Ridley were brought to trial again; when the priests demanded that Ridley recant, ...

SUNDAY AWODI REST IN PEACE

SUNDAY AWODI REST IN PEACE In the quietness of the hour When the birds of dawn slumbered In the stillness of the night When the world wa...

Be Strong

BE STRONG Quit you like men, be strong – 1 Cor 16:13 Do not pray for easy lives! Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to you...

Comnenus Andronicus

Andronicus I. (Comnenus, usurper and emperor), 1115-1185. " Lord, have mercy upon me. Wilt thou break a bruised reed? " So great w...

Saint Anselm

Anselm ("Saint," Archbishop of Canterbury), 1034-1109. " I shall gladly obey His call; yet I should also feel grateful if He ...

Francis Bacon

Bacon (Francis, Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans), 1561-1626. " Thy creatures, O Lord, have  been my books, but Thy Holy Scriptures m...

Saint Anselm

Anselm ("Saint," Archbishop of Canterbury), 1034-1109. " I shall gladly obey His call; yet I should also feel grateful if He ...

Prince Albert

Albert (Francis-Augustus-Charles-Emmanuel, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. He married Queen Victoria, his cousin, the tenth of February, 18...

Saint Ambrose

Ambrose ("Saint," Latin Father, author of many books of varying value and interest, and author of a method of singing known as &qu...

Agrippina (Mother of Emperor Nero)

Agrippina (mother of the Emperor Nero. She was one of the worst of women, and was condemned to death by her own son),—60. " Strike here...

Henry Alford

Alford (Henry, commonly called "Dean Alford," English poet and divine, Dean of Canterbury), 1810-1871. " Will you tell the Ar...

Saint Anthony

Anthony or Antony ("Saint," surnamed Abbas, the reputed founder of monachism), 251-356. " Let this word of mine be kept by yo...

Eugene Aram

Aram  (Eugene, executed for the murder of Daniel Clark. The story of Eugene Aram forms the subject of one of Bulwer's novels, and of a p...

Henricus Agrippa

Agrippa (Henricus Cornelius, German physician, theologian and astrologer, skilled in alchemy and occult sciences), 1486-1535. " Begone,...

Fisher Ames

Ames (Fisher, distinguished American statesman, leader of the Federal party in the House of Representatives during the administration of Was...

Richard Baxter

Baxter (Richard, noted English nonconformist, author of "The Saints' Everlasting Rest," and "The Call to the Unconverted&...

Richard Baxter

Baxter (Richard, noted English nonconformist, author of "The Saints' Everlasting Rest," and "The Call to the Unconverted&...

Ariosto

Ariosto (Lodovico, Italian poet), 1479-1533. " This is not my home. "

Venerable Bede

Bede (surnamed "The Venerable;" an English monk, and the author of " Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum "), 673-735....

William Battie

Battie (William, English physician), 1704-1776. " Young man, you have heard, no doubt, how great are the terrors of death: this night w...