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Aug 11, 20216 min read

Aug 10 Salvation Outside the Church

On August 10 1863 Pope Pius IX issued an encyclical Quanto conficiamur in which he expressed the possibility that non-Catholics and...

Aug 11, 20213 min read

Aug 9 Herman the Wonderworker of all Alaska

Today in 1970, a solemn liturgy at Holy Resurrection Orthodox Cathedral on Kodiak Island, Alaska, glorified St. Herman, as the...

Aug 7, 20215 min read

Aug 8 Soren Kierkegaard's Leap of Faith

The father of Soren Kierkergaard died today age 82. Kierkegaard wrote in his diary: "My father died on Wednesday (the 8th) at 2:00 a.m. I...

Aug 6, 20213 min read

Aug 7 The first 'mega-mass' in Munich -1960

On this day in Christian History we go back to year 1960 and travel to Munich where the 37th International Eucharistic Congress finished...

Aug 6, 20213 min read

Aug 6 Conclave

Today in 1494. the first conclave to be held in the Sistine Chapel opened. Concerns about political interference in the election of a...

Aug 6, 20215 min read

Aug 5 Bill W & Alcoholics Anonymous

Today in 1934 Bill Wilson was lying in Charles B. Towns Hospital for Drug and Alcohol Addictions in New York City under the care of Dr....

Aug 6, 20214 min read

Aug 4 Dr Grenfell in Labrador & the Seafarers Mission

Today we travel to Labrador in Canada where Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell arrived on the remote Canadian Atlantic coast to work with colonists...

Aug 6, 20213 min read

Aug 3 Christopher Columbus

Today at dawn the Santa María and its companion boats commenced the historic voyage which will bring Europeans to America. The...

Aug 2, 20215 min read

Aug 2 Edith Stein

Today in 1942 the Carmelite Nun Edith Stein was arrested in her convent in the Netherlands by the SS and taken to Auschwitz concentration...

Aug 2, 20213 min read

Aug 1 The Vikings, Bluetooth and Ethewold

Ethelwold of Winchester died today. After the spiritual damage left by Danish invasions, caused by relentless raids on monasteries,...

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