History: Fast and lethal, the Black Death spread more than a mile per day
Roughly one out of three people died as this medieval plague quickly travelled along European trade routes, devastating communities along the way. Friday, 24 April 2020 By Antoni Virgili […]
Why did the Plague spare Poland?
The Black Death skipped certain parts of Europe – and that could be a lesson for today’s coronavirus epidemic Frank Jacobs 06 March, 2020 Why were Milan, Poland and a few other places spared the worst of the Black Death? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/Bubonic_plague-en.svg Image: Andy85719 – CC BY-SA 3.0 Calm down, we’re […]
Palermo pins hopes on patron saint to rid Italy of coronavirus
Residents of Sicilian capital pray for another miracle from Saint Rosalia, who they say rescued the city from a deadly plague in 1625 Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo @lorenzo_tondo Fri 13 Mar 2020 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/13/palermo-pins-hopes-patron-saint-rosalia-rid-italy-coronavirus#img-1 Gaetano Ceravolo, 58, a parish priest at the Sanctuary of Santa Rosalia, who, according to the legend, […]