July 13 is the feast of St. Silas, faithful companion of St. Paul. The two holy men spent that night in prison singing and praying. Suddenly, at about midnight, an earthquake shook violently ...

Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. — Acts 16:26 In his book A Crack in the Edge of the World, Simon Winchester writes of the small ...

Paul, Silas, and their companions were dirty, ... Instead, they prayed and sang hymns late into the night—and then, miraculously, a violent earthquake shook the prison, opened the doors, ...