Barrel

Ammonas was a disciple of Anthony the Great and, after Anthony withdrew to the Inner Mountain by the Red Sea, his successor at Pispir on the Nile. He had already spent fourteen…

Katharina von Bora was placed in a convent as a child and left it as a young woman, smuggled out at Easter 1523 with eleven other nuns; the tradition says they hid among empty…

George Whitefield, an innkeeper's son converted at Oxford alongside the Wesleys, took to preaching in the open fields when church pulpits closed to him — first to the coal…