One of the books I remember reading long ago was Patricia Lauber’s Famous Mysteries of the Sea. You can still find used copies of it for under ten dollars. It included a description of the disappearance of the Waratah, a steamship lost without a trace of crew or passengers or ship in July 1909 off… Continue reading December 4: The Mary Celeste
Category: History
December 2: Chromatius
December 2 is the feast of Chromatius, bishop of Aquileia in Italy, who died in 406. He is one of those minor early Church Fathers who don’t get a lot of press, and he shows up in only in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Calendars, but he’s definitely worth more than a cursory glance.… Continue reading December 2: Chromatius
November 30: Gregory of Tours
I like Gregory of Tours. His feast is November 17, but I opted to talk about Möbius that day, so we’ll consider Gregory today, on the anniversary of his birth, A.D. November 30, 539. Students at Scholars Online have the rare opportunity to read Gregory, in English in Western Literature to Dante, or in Latin… Continue reading November 30: Gregory of Tours