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Marie Bernarde Soubirous: From the Life of a Saint

In Lourdes, Bernadette is always near the sick people with her message of suffering – which she lived in hope and joy. As she is near the pilgrim with the evidence of her life and with the message of the Immaculate Conception. ...
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Who was Saint Nicholas?

St. Nicholas is represented on icons very often, probably most frequent than any other saint. The ecclesiastical history records two people with the name “Nicholas”. Both of them are reputed to be holy: Bishop Nicholas of Myra (lived in the 4 th century) and Nicholas of Sion, Bishop of Pinara (died 564)....
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Exorcism

Catholic Church has even developped an own ritual for the exorcism. The Roman Rites Register dated 1614 is a classical guide for exorcists that is still applied today. It contains prayers, bible recitations, litanies and formulas of banishment. ...
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Do Blind People Have Near Death Experiences

Near death experiences or NDE’s have been a subject of controversy for many years. It’s often been debated whether or not an NDE is true evidence that the consciousness survives even after death....
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Vampires in Past and Present - Part III: Reality

There are different types of vampires and is has to make the difference between real vampires, role playing vampires, fictional vampires, animals (bats), medical conditions or blood fetishists. ...
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Vampires in Past and Present - Part II: Research and Theories

Throughout history and even present times, the Vampire phenomenon has been researched by different people. The three most important and famous of them have been the French Benedictine Dom Antoine Augustin Calmet, the English Catholic and Occultist Montague Summers and the American paranormal investigator and vampirologist Stephen Kaplan. ...
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Vampires in Past and Present - Part I: Etymology, Myth, Legend and History

Vampires have been called a lot of names around the world. The word “vampir” was of Slavic origin and had been used in Russia, Serbia, Hungary, Poland and Romania. It derived eventually from Hungarian language and means “to drink”. ...
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The Illuminati or the Invisible Evil

The history of the Illuminati begins in 1776 with the foundation of the so-called “Order of the Illuminati” in Ingolstadt, Germany. It was designed as secret society, was at the beginning considerably successful but began to fall apart gradually in inner quarrels even before its prohobition by the Bavarian Land government in 1785. ...
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Black Madonnas and Pilgrimages: Their origins in Paganism

We know that with Stonehenge sun, moon and the stars had been considered. As well the construction of cathedrales in the Middle Ages oriented itself from the constellation of stars. The above-mentioned suggests that the cathedral is – similar to the stars – something everlasting and perpetual, object of earthly mysticism, symbolized by Stella Maris, the Star of the Sea, the Black Madonna. ...
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God, The Biggest Unsolved Mystery

God is without a doubt the most talked about unsolved mystery. Many accept what they have been told throughout the years and some have questions that no one seems to be able to answer....
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