Imagine the walls that have soaked up 1600 years of history in one of Constantinople’s most important Byzantine monasteries, ...
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The Fall of Constantinople: The Great Siege of 1453
This is the story of Constantinople’s fall, how Europe’s richest city fell to the Turks and became known as Istanbul: the story of the Great Siege of 1453. When history's greatest fortification was ...
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In her exhibition, Allen took audiences through the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and the surviving Eastern Roman ...
During his general audience on April 29, Pope Benedict XVI continued his teachings on the great medieval writers of the Church from the East and the West. He offered his reflections on St. Germanus, a ...
After I heard Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew say on "60 Minutes" that the primary site of the Orthodox Church has been in Constantinople for 17 centuries, I was inspired to do some research to ...
GREEKS still consider Tuesday an unlucky day. May 29th 1453, was a Tuesday; the day that Constantinople, the place they called—and often still call—the queen of cities, or simply “the city” was ...
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