After a long journey to the Catholic faith, Hilary (born in 310) was baptized in 345 and elected bishop of Poitiers in 353. His first work, Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew, is the oldest surviving ...

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In 732 invaders who had swept across North Africa and crossed the straits of Gibraltar to Europe punched northward—eager to capture the entire continent. About a dozen miles north of Poitiers these ...

On January 13, Catholics will celebrate St. Hilary of Poitiers, a fourth-century philosopher whose studies made him a champion of orthodox Trinitarian theology during one of the most difficult periods ...

We wished to create a cluster of houses that is both a privacy area and a smoothed porous space, either from the outside or from the inside of the block. A service road irrigates the hearth of the ...

Poitiers is the Back To The Future destination. This ancient city with Roman roots is where a famous feisty Queen of England once ruled France. Now it looks forward millions of years, in one of Europe ...

The Université de Poitiers is one of the oldest universities in Europe having been founded in 1431. The university is situated in the city of Poitiers, France. The university's establishment can be ...