Grantian Florilegium

Jan Hus began preaching the doctrines of the Reformation almost a century before Martin Luther when he brought the writings of John Wyclif t...

It was on this day in 1453 that Mehmed II, Sultan of the Ottoman Turks, cruel and patient, laid siege the great Christian city of Constantin...

By Charing Cross in London Town There runs a road of high renown, Where antique books are ranged on shelves As dark and dusty as themslev...

This royal throne of kings, This sceptered isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, this demi-paradise, This for...

John Knox appeared at the Church of the Blackfriars in Edinburgh to face charges of heresy on this day in 1556. The Catholic bishops had ho...

Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was accidentally wounded by his own men at the Battle of Chancellorsville on this d...

On May 1, 1945 Germany made public the death of the notorious warlord Adolf Hitler. Exactly sixty-six years later, the United States likewi...

"And we were baptized and all anxiety for our past life vanished away." With these joyous words Augustine recorded his entrance i...

Christ is risen! He is risen, indeed! Jesus said, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though ...