@Calangel89@TheStaad Even Jesus wept when Lazarus died, even though He had the power to resurrect him. Just because everything will work out in the end doesn’t mean suffering and death isn’t tragic.
@kensiderations@JeremyTate41 Health problems. Though the exact issue is unknown, scholars theorize it may have been severe asthma. Anyways he was given a dispensation from celebrating Mass, so he found other ways to serve God.
@BenWilsonTweets Napoleon was not ‘really’ of common birth, being a member of the Corsican nobility, though the age where that meant something was already passing away by that point. At the start of his life he was about as far from imperial dignity as any peasant.
@ghuntergray@nonregemesse You really think crusader women wore dresses on campaign? Look up ida of Austria for another example, she fought and died in a massive crusader battle same as the men.
@TimothyEveland Really illustrates that full plate armor, even as it wards blows, also has weaknesses. It resisted the sword strike well and yet the face guard was compromised by the hit - something likely to be quickly exploited by your enemy in a real battle.
@UgeneralU@trad_west_ Thars part of it. Jesuits were also encouraging Japanese people to desecrate Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples. Japan at the end of the 15th century was wrapping up a massive civil war, and widespread Christian conversion would’ve led to another one.