Joachim of Flora, Blessed
Article on this Cistercian abbot, mystic, regarded as a prophet, d. 1202.
Joan of Arc, Saint
Her brief life, her trial and death, swift rehabilitation, and her beatification in 1909.
Joan, Popess
The fable about a female pope, who afterwards bore the name of Johanna (Joan), is first noticed in the middle of the thirteenth century.
Joannes de Sacrobosco
John Holywood, a monk of English origin, lived in the first half of the thirteenth century as professor of astronomy at Paris; died in that city, 1256.
Joest, Jan
Dutch painter, b. at Calcker, or Calcar, about 1460; d. at Haarlem in 1519.
John Beche, Blessed
Benedictine abbot. When Beche refused to grant that the king had any authority to confiscate St. John's Abbey, Colchester, he was thrown in the Tower on charges of treason. Though …
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