Beyond 1492: Surprising Truths About the Christopher Columbus
Beyond 1492: Surprising Truths About the Christopher Columbus The story of Christopher Columbus is one of the first pieces of history many of us learn. In 1492, a brave Italian explorer, funded by the Spanish Crown, sailed the ocean blue and “discovered” America. It’s a simple, heroic narrative, repeated for centuries in classrooms and textbooks, […]
The Miracle at the Basilica of Santa Maria del Pi church in the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona
While setting up lights for a saint’s beatification in 1806, master builder José Mestres fell from a Gothic buttress at Barcelona’s Basilica of Santa Maria del Pi, and walked away unharmed. Discover the miraculous story and the hidden plaque that still marks the spot.