For the last 25 years, UNESCO has been celebrating May 3 as World Press Freedom Day. The aim of the Day, declared by the UN General Assembly in 1993, is that of celebrating and highlighting the principles…
Every year, the night from April 30 to May 1, part of Europe celebrates the Germanic and Scandinavian feast known as Walpurgis Night. Although its name comes from the 8th-century Christian Saint Walpurga (or Walburga) of Heidenheim,…
April 29 is the feast day of Saint Catherine of Siena, patron saint of Italy (along with St. Francis of Assisi) and Europe (together with Benedict of Nursia, Saints Cyril and Methodius, Bridget of…
Initial "P", illumination from the manuscript "Missale ad usum ecclesiae Aquensis", ms. NAL 2661, f. 50v, 1466, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Paris. “But he who dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave…
On this day, April 25, 511 years ago, the New World was officially given its name: "America". The new name, in fact, was used for the first time on the Universalis Cosmographia, a printed map created by the German…
The Church celebrates today the feast day of Saint George. Being one of the most popular and venerated Saints in Christianity, George is also very frequently depicted in many medieval manuscripts: although many are the…
April 21 remarks the traditional date of the founding of Rome, the supposed day on which Romulus would have founded the City in 753 BC. The date was identified by the 1st century Roman scholar Varro:…
Ever since the dawn of humanity, the sky and space as a whole have always been both a great dream and goal for humankind. The Space Race of the 20th century, from this point…