Meditations on the Life of Christ is believed to have been written by a Franciscan friar, named Giovanni de’ Cauli. Giovanni de’ Cauli, basically, took some artistic freedom and revamped the story of the life of Jesus Christ by combining the four Gospels with texts from several other medieval sources. De’ Cauli used, for… Continue reading →
The Cluniac order was established in 910 by Duke William I of Aquitaine, the Duke was afraid he had done a little too much murdering and sinning for God’s taste and needed the prayer of monks to get on the good side of God again. In the foundation charter, William made sure to state that… Continue reading →
Question 3: The “continental” Roman church was organized into districts that coincided with, from what I understand, Roman cities. Each of these districts then had a bishop appointed as the, well, as the boss. In Ireland, however, there were no cities at the time, so the church there could not be organized in the same… Continue reading →
