Tag: wisdom

• The Woman Who Outargued an Empire

  The Life of Saint Catherine of Alexandria (c. 287–305) The fifty philosophers filed into the emperor’s hall like soldiers marching… Read more.

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  The Empress Who Restored the Icons

  The Life of Saint Theodora the Empress (died ca. 867) The young woman from Paphlagonia had dark eyes that missed… Read more.

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  The Scholar Who Wrote Ten Thousand Letters

  The Life of Saint Isidore of Pelusium (ca. 360-436) The ship rocked against the Egyptian harbor, and the young man… Read more.