Category: Part 4: Marriage is… for the Good of the Spouses
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What to Expect in your 8th Century Marriage
About the Author Emperor Leo III, the Isaurian (c. 675 – 741). When Leo was a young man, his parents had brought him from his native Syria to Constantinople, the capital city of the Eastern Roman Empire. The emperor had given young Leo a job, but grown worried about his ambition. He had sent Leo…
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On Loyalty in a Marriage
About the Author Around 1393 a man in Paris whom we remember only as the Goodman of Paris got married. We think he was in his sixties and his wife was in her twenties. The Goodman of Paris set out to tell his young wife what he thought a marriage should be by writing a…
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Saint Augustine on why Marriage is Good
About the Author Saint Augustine (354 – 430 AD) was slowly brought to Christianity via the philosophy of Platonism and the gnostic cult of the Manichees. He tells the whole story of his conversion with introspective honesty in his Confessions. Augustine’s search is a model for many Christians, as were his words, credo ut intelligam, I believe…
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Four Royal Weddings
About the Author Charles A. Coulombe is a historian and author who has written widely on Catholic and secular topics, whose 14 books and many articles range from monarchism to mythology to poetry to rum and well beyond. Recently Charles is the author of Blessed Charles of Austria: A Holy Emperor and His Legacy (TAN Books, 2020).…
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Two are Better than One
About the Author The world-weary author of the book of Ecclesiastes takes time in book 4, verses 9-12 to speak to the importance of friend and, perhaps, a spouse who is a support and a helper. Two are Better than One 9 Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their…