Monseigneur: 25 books

Of a knight of Burgundy, who was marvellously amorous of one of his wife's waiting women, and thinking to sleep with her, slept with his wife who was in the bed of the said tire-woman. And how he caused, by his order, another knight, his neighbour to sleep with the said woman, believing that it was...

Le Garri est, en Provence, ce jeu qui consiste, à l'aide d'un miroir, à renvoyer l'éclat du soleil là où il ne parvient pas. Pour le Père Jean-Michel di Falco, le prêtre est à l'image du Garri : il renvoie vers les autres ce qu'il reçoit de Dieu. Devenu prêtre dans la cacophonie des événements...

Un groupe hors du commun, Les Prêtres, fondé sur le modèle des boys band, mais avec... deux prêtres et un séminariste. À l'initiative de Jean-Michel di Falco Léandri, évêque de Gap et d'Embrun, Jean-Michel Bardet, curé de la cathédrale de Gap, Charles Troesch, devenu prêtre en 2009 et...

Of the deceit practised by a knight on a miller's wife whom he made believe that her front was loose, and fastened it many times. And the miller informed of this, searched for a diamond that the knight's lady had lost, and found it in her body, as the knight knew afterwards: so he called the miller "fisherman", and the miller called him "fastener".

Of a knight of England, who, after he was married, wished his mignon to procure him some pretty girls, as he did before; which the mignon would not do, saying that one wife sufficed; but the said knight brought him back to obedience by causing eel pasties to be always served to him, both at dinner and at supper.

Of a nun whom a monk wished to deceive, and how he offered to shoo her his weapon that she might feel it, but brought with him a companion whom he put forward in his place, and of the answer she gave him.

The fourth tale is of a Scotch archer who was in love with a fair and gentle dame, the wife of a mercer, who, by her husband's orders appointed a day for the said Scot to visit her, who came and treated her as he wished, the said mercer being hid by the side of the bed, where he could see and hear all...

Of a jealous rogue, who after many offerings made to divers saints to curé him of his jealousy, offered a candle to the devil who is usually painted under the feet of St. Michael; and of the dream that he had and what happened to him when he awoke.

Of a goldsmith of Paris who made a waggoner sleep with him and his wife, and how the waggoner dallied with her from behind, which the goldsmith perceived and discovered, and of the words which he spake to the waggoner.

« Messire Dieu premier servi » C'est peut-être en raison de cette citation célèbre prêtée à sainte Jeanne d'Arc que le Nonce Apostolique en France pouvait avoir compétence à écrire quelques mots pour accompagner la publication d'un ouvrage sur cette grande sainte française. Cet...

Saint Jean-Paul II affirmait un jour que « les sanctuaires dédiés à la Vierge, disséminés partout dans le monde, sont comme des bornes milliaires dressées pour rythmer le temps de notre itinéraire terrestre : ils nous permettent de prendre un moment de repos au cours du voyage et de retrouver...