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Aug 31 - Grunewald, Artist of the Crucifixion

Today we remember the German Renaissance painter Matthias Grunewald who died in 1528. Now famous for his religious art that display...

Aug 14 Maximillian Kolbe

Today in Poland, the Franciscan Maximilian Kolbe volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the German concentration camp at Auschwitz....

Aug 1 The Vikings, Bluetooth and Ethewold

Ethelwold of Winchester died today. After the spiritual damage left by Danish invasions, caused by relentless raids on monasteries,...

June 13 The Doctor who discovered the causes of Downs Syndrome and then became their defender

Jérôme Jean Louis Marie Lejeune was born today in 1926. He would become a medical doctor and was a pioneering researcher all his life. ...

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