A Midvalley tradition continues in full force with a new generation. On Saturday, the town of Jessup comes to life for St.

"Breakspear was a young, impoverished lad from England, with no family connections, no money, and it was quite remarkable that he ended up as Pope by the time he was 50," explains his biographer, ...

"He chose a bad time to be Pope," says Waddingham. "In 1154, he was threatened on three sides by powerful forces: Frederick Barbarossa in the North; King William of Sicily in the south; and ...

To date, just one of the 266 Popes to have served the Catholic Church has been British. Learn more about Nicholas Breakspear ...

Operation Sindoor's name was chosen to honour the lives shattered in the Pahalgam massacre, where several women lost their husbands ...

who resisted Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. Since Pope Sergius I (7th century), the change of name upon accession to the papal throne has become systematic. This choice is often a message addressed ...

Pope St. Peter – (Tradition) Alexander III had one of the longest medieval papacies. He stood up to Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and supported the idea of Church independence from political power.

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He restored Papal authority over the city of Rome, and clashed with the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa over authority, and with the Byzantine Emperor over territorial claims in the Adriatic ...