Peter O’Toole’s Nose
Peter O’Toole was so handsome, even men called him “beautiful,” but the...
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Irène Némirovsky, A Catholic Writer Who Died at Auschwitz
Finally, there is the enigma of her conversion to Catholicism. On February 2, 1939, Irène Némirovsky, along with her husband, Michael, and the two daughters, was baptized in the chapel of the Abbey Sainte-Marie de Paris. Some saw this as a desperate attempt to escape Nazi persecution.
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Does “Bloody” Describe Mary I of England?
Mary I was the first queen regnant of England; her anointing and crowning broke the taboo of those semi-sacraments being reserved for men; she and Reginald Cardinal Pole, the last Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury, revived and renewed the practice of Catholicism in England; and she possessed the Tudor charisma while being a hard-working and thoughtful monarch.
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