Grantian Florilegium

Numbered among the Apostles, the brother of Simon Peter eventually became the revered patron of both Greece and Scotland where his feast...

"If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them—peer into them, let them fall open where they will...

The Mayflower was not the first ship of colonists to arrive in the New World.  It was not even the first in the English domains...

Long before the bane of cable television and the internet invaded our every waking moment C.S. Lewis commented that while most people in...

In the immediate aftermath of the Battle of Lutzen—one of the most crucial engagements in the bloody Thirty Years War—it was announced t...

Martin Bucer was born on this day, Martinmas, in 1491 in the Alsace-Lorraine borderland between France and Germany.  He would eventually...

"Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work." Oswald Chambers “Prayer can never be in excess....

Martin of Tours was a faithful pastor in Gaul who was martyred on this day in 397.   Also on this day in 655, Martin of Umbria w...

According to tradition, on this day in the year 432, a young British monk—formerly held captive as a slave by the very people he...

In the earliest years of the church, so many martyrs died for their faith, Christians set aside special days to honor them.  For...