Over the past decade, the Mediterranean has been the setting for a migrant crisis ... and Euro-African encounters were much alive in Benedict the Moor’s time, the 16th and 17th centuries, as well. If ...

In Mediterranean Europe, St. Benedict the Moor is back. The Afropean saint is reemerging amid a swelling African diaspora. by Philip Jenkins. July 23, 2021. Since 1900, the Christian Century has ...

The place would henceforth be known as El Ultimo Suspiro del Moro -- "the Moor's Last Sigh ... True, the Ottomans would contest the Eastern Mediterranean. But their challenge was turned back.