Jan 31 - Youseff Karam, St Maron & Lebanon
Today in 1867 the Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Karam left Lebanon on board of a French ship for Algeria, to begin his second...
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Pearl of Great Price
Jan 31, 20215 min read
Jan 30 - Cromwell and the day of two Executions
Today in 1661 the puritan, Oliver Cromwell, and former Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, was ritually executed more than two...
Pearl of Great Price
Jan 31, 20213 min read
Jan 29 - Martin Luther's Wife
Today in 1552 Katharina von Bora was born, she became known as the ‘Lutheress’ because at the age of 26 she was to marry the reformer...
Pearl of Great Price
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Jan 28 - Excommunicating an Emperor
Today we remember in 1077 the famous midwinter penitential Walk to Canossa by King Henry IV, the Holy Roman Emperor. Henry petitioned...
Pearl of Great Price
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Jan 27 - Dante exiled from Florence
Today in 1302, we remember how the Italian poet Dante Alighieri was exiled from Florence. In exile Date wrote the celebrated work The...
Pearl of Great Price
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Jan 26 - India becomes a republic, Mukherjee is vice-president
Today in 1950 the Constitution of India came into force, forming a republic. An ancient, massive and deeply religious country with 80%...
Pearl of Great Price
Jan 31, 20213 min read
Jan 25 - São Paulo founded by missionaries
Today in 1554 a small group of Jesuit missionaries, built a mission on top of a steep hill on the Piratiningha plains . As part of the...
Pearl of Great Price
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Jan 24 - Russia adopts the Gregorian calendar
Today in 1918 the Gregorian calendar was introduced in Russia by decree of the Council of People's Commissars. This brought another...
Pearl of Great Price
Jan 30, 20213 min read
Jan 23 - The Netherlands Splits
Today in 1579 a treaty was signed by Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, and the province (but not the city) of Groningen which effectively split...
Pearl of Great Price
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Jan 22 - Swiss Guard arrive at Vatican
Today in 1506 the first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrives at the Vatican. Why did they arrive? How have their responsibilities...
Pearl of Great Price
Jan 30, 20213 min read
Jan 21- The Pilgrim Fathers pray on US Soil
Today in 1621 the Pilgrims from England left their ship the Mayflower and gathered on shore at Plymouth, Massachusetts, for their first...
Pearl of Great Price
Jan 30, 20213 min read
Jan 20 - How the Church survived Communist Russia
Today in 1918 the Bolshevik-controlled government enacted a Decree that proclaimed separation of church and state in Russia and deprived...
Pearl of Great Price
Jan 30, 20211 min read
Jan 19 - Premiere of Goethe's Faust
Today in 1829, Germany saw the premiere of Faust. A tragedy in two parts, Goethe's Faust is considered to be the greatest work in German...
Pearl of Great Price
Jan 29, 20212 min read
Jan 18 - Council of Trent and the counter-reformation
Today the third and final session of the Council of Trent opened. An ecumenical council as opposed to a local council it would prove ...
Pearl of Great Price
Jan 29, 20213 min read
Jan 17 - Baptising Children?
Today in 1525 there was a public debate in Zurich, arranged by the city council, on whether it was permitted to baptise infants. Lead by...
Pearl of Great Price
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Jan 16 - The Medici become the Pope's Bankers
Today in 1412 the Medici family agreed to become the official bankers of the papacy, which turbocharged their businesses across Europe. ...
Pearl of Great Price
Jan 29, 20213 min read
Jan 15 - The invention of Basketball
Today in 1892 the chaplain and teacher James Naismith published the rules of basketball. This is the story of how he invented it at the...
Pearl of Great Price
Jan 29, 20214 min read
Jan 14 - Albert Schweitzer Born
Today in 1875, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Theologian and Missionary, Albert Schweitzer was born. We look at his remarkable life and mixed...
Pearl of Great Price
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Jan 13 - Mary Slessor and Twins
Today's pod looks at the life of a remarkable Scottish Woman, who dedicated her life to saving twins from infanticide amongst the Okoyong...
Pearl of Great Price
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Jan 12 Digging up the Bible
Today in 1897 we remember an amazing discovery in ancient rubbish dump near Oxyrhynchus, in Egypt. Two English archaeologists, Bernard...
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