The stunning prayer book, printed around 1527 with devotional texts designed to be read throughout the day, features hand-painted woodcuts—as well as a rare example of the queen’s own writing.

What we can infer from the evidence of the Book of Acts and the third gospel is that the author was someone who was steeped in scripture, in the Septuagint, and who was aware of Hellenistic ...

Thus the magic is woven throughout the book: a whirlwind of passion, scholarship, mysticism, astrology, natural magic, dreams, fantasy, repentance and obsession. It is an exploration of the ...

As the Book of Acts recounts, St. Stephen was a deacon who was the first martyr after the resurrection of Jesus. He was killed for preaching Christ as the fulfillment of the Old Testament.