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Jul 10, 20213 min read

July 11 Eric Liddell the Flying Scotsman

Today we remember how the Scottish Missionary Eric Liddell won the Olympic 400-meter race in Paris after he had rejected an opportunity...

Jul 10, 20213 min read

July 10 Cardinal Richelieu and the French Academy

Its 1637 and we are in Paris where at Cardinal Richelieu's urging, King Louis XIII granted letters patent formally establishing a council...

Jul 8, 20213 min read

July 9 Brazil, a Papal stampede and Dom Helder Camara

Today in 1980 some people died in a stampede trying to get in to see Pope John Paul II in a soccer stadium in Fortaleza, Brazil. The...

Jul 7, 20213 min read

July 8 John Templeton and the Templeton Prize

Today we travel to the Bahamas and remember the death of Sir John Mark Templeton at the age of 95. The year before he died, Templeton...

Jul 6, 20216 min read

July 7 Alexander Solzhenitsyn Repenting in the Gulag

The Russian writer Alexander Solzenhitsyn was sentenced in his absence to an eight year term in a labour camp in Siberia. He would be...

Jul 5, 20218 min read

July 6 Mircea Eliade and the Eternal Return

Today we look at the life and thought of Mircea Eliade a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at...

Jul 4, 20214 min read

July 4 Pulcheria and the Theotokos

Today in 432 a large crowd descended on the church in Constantinople cheering “Many years to Pulcheria! Many years to the empress!” They...

Jul 4, 20213 min read

July 5 Thomas Cook transforms temperance into tourism

Today we travel to Leicester in England where Thomas Cook organised his first rail excursion for a day out to Loughborough. 500 people...

Jul 2, 20214 min read

July 2 St Swithun and St Swithins Day

Swithun, the Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Winchester died today. It is difficult to get reliable historical facts about him, but he still has a...

Jul 2, 20213 min read

July 3 Prester John and Marco Polo

For more than 500 years, Europeans believed a Christian king ruled over a vast empire somewhere in the wilds of Africa, India or the Far...

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