Category: Faith and Family

I told you I didn’t think I was Irish

On this day in 1563 the Edict of Amboise was signed by Catherine de’ Medici, acting as regent for her son Charles IX of France. Officially, this treaty ended the first phase of the French Wars of Religion and guaranteed the Huguenots religious privileges and freedoms, thus restoring the peace. I’m not enough of an …

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The (not so) Shameless Beg

I knew there was something special about the theater for me something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself. – Raúl Juliá Puerto Rican-American actor Raúl Juliá was born on this day in 1940 (died 1994). Juliá was diagnosed with stomach cancer in 1991.  He …

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