Saksagan
Mid-September for the feast of Cyprian
A market festival occurred there every year in mid-September for the feast of Cyprian, the martyred Christian bishop of Africa in the third century....
Antiochus Strategos part 27
Willibald and Mother Church, like a hen that cherishes her offspring beneath her wings, won over many adoptive sons to the Lord, protecting them...
Alexius Part 28
In various ingenious ways also Robert caught the ear of the public; one day he would commiserate himself on the sad fate of his...
Antiochus Strategos part 24
After this, a priest who came from Spain to St. Benedict’s and stayed there asked permission of Abbot Petronax to go to Rome. When...
Antiochus Strategos part 21
Then they travelled across a wide plain covered with Olive trees, and with them travelled an Ethiopian and his two camels, who led a...
Antiochus Strategos part 20
The remains of the church of St. George, who was said to have been born there, are still to be seen: they have been...
Alexius Part 27
The story runs thus, the arch-villain Robert who was hatching war against the Romans, and had been making his preparations for some time, was...
Alexius Part 26
That man Robert, who from a most inconspicuous beginning had grown most conspicuous, and amassed great power, now desired eagerly to become Roman Emperor,...
Alexius Part 35
But as I write I have to laugh at the thought of these men’s folly and infatuation, and especially at their mutual boastfulness. Robert,...
Alexius Part 25
XII Having thus become master of all Mascabeles’ possessions, he after that grew daily in power, and becoming ever more despotic, piled cities upon...
