organised across the empire, and beasts of burden (including oxen, donkeys and mules), were released from their work duties and decorated with flowers. Such...

Saladin's Well. These ramps were each designed for one-way traffic, so that mules laden with water-jars might pass down and then up unobstructed. An inscription...

of equinophobia may also fear other hoofed animals such as donkeys and mules. An example of the phobia can be found in Freud's psychoanalytic study of...

The 1492 papal conclave (6–11 August) was convened after the death of Pope Innocent VIII (25 July 1492). It was the first papal conclave to be held in...

he was elevated to Cardinal in June of the same year, and again on his papal coat of arms when he was elected in 2005. The scallop shell is a traditional...

their governess. "The bastards", as they were called, were compared to mules, unnatural hybrids who should not reproduce. "No issue should come of such...

considerably more than four mule-loads of silver. Johann Burchard, the conclave's master of ceremonies and a leading figure of the papal household under several...

board of Catholics in Media Associates. In 2020, he was nominated for a papal knighthood, the Order of St. Gregory the Great. He was also named one of...

his mule at Narni and had to recover in early October in Rome, where he was able to oust the communal rule of the banderesi and restore the papal authority...

enemies, leaving him in control of the entire region. Monsignor Apollo, the papal nuncio to Hannegan's court, sends word to New Rome that Hannegan intends...