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Pearl of Great Price
Oct 23, 20213 min read
Oct 10 The First Millenial Saint?
We remember today how in Monza in Italy a 15 year old boy Carlo Acutis died of leukaemia. He was a remarkable young man. He stated that...
Pearl of Great Price
Oct 22, 20213 min read
Oct 9 Father Gabriel Fallopio - Rennaisance Anatomist
Today in 1562 we remember the death of Father Gabriel Fallopio the most illustrious of 16th-century Italian anatomist died. He...
Pearl of Great Price
Oct 22, 20215 min read
Oct 8 Japans Shindler's List
Mrs. Yukiko Sugihara, who had helped her husband, Chiune, rescue thousands of Jews from Lithuania during World War II. They were a...
Pearl of Great Price
Oct 22, 20215 min read
Oct 6 Tennyson - Faith and Doubt In Memoriam
Queen Victoria, the longest reigning British monarch, after the death of her beloved Prince Albert was undergoing prolonged and painful...
Pearl of Great Price
Oct 22, 20216 min read
Oct 7 - Mother Teresa founds her order
Today in 1950, Mother Teresa founded the religious order the Missionaries of Charity. Today she received permission from the Holy See to...
Pearl of Great Price
Oct 18, 20214 min read
Oct 5 Uganda -Ecumenism of Blood
Today Christians took control of the government after enduring years of persecution which had triggered a rebellion. The victory was in...
Pearl of Great Price
Oct 18, 20215 min read
Oct 4 Rembrandt - painter of the soul
Today in 1669 we travel to Holland where we remember the death of the great Dutch painter Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn. Rembrandt was...
Pearl of Great Price
Oct 18, 20213 min read
Oct 3 Zionism in Africa and John Alexander Dowie
Today we look at the figure of John Alexander Dowie suffered from a stroke in Chicago on Oct 3rd. Dowie was a Scottish / Australian...
Pearl of Great Price
Oct 15, 20213 min read
Oct 2 Mindzenty of Hungary
Today in 1945 we travel to Hungary where Josef Mindzentsy was appointed Archbishop and leader of the Catholic Church - a position with...
Pearl of Great Price
Oct 14, 20214 min read
Oct 1 Guardini - The Lord
Today we are Munich in Bavaria, where one of the most creative theologians of the 20th Century, Romano Guardini died in 1968. His...
Pearl of Great Price
Oct 14, 20215 min read
Sep 30 George Tyrell and Modernism
Today in 1907 and a letter in the Times from the priest George Tyrell, and publisjed in London, which was against the papal encyclical...
Pearl of Great Price
Oct 14, 20213 min read
Sep 29 Pope Leo the great and Atilla the Hun
Today Leo was consecrated bishop of Rome becoming the pope. His papacy was very significant, famous for his meeting with Attila the Hun...
Pearl of Great Price
Oct 12, 20215 min read
Sep 28 The Obelisk that 'witnessed' St Peters Death
We go back to year 1586 and travel to Rome where a large pink granite obelisk known as "The Witness", was moved to its present location...
Pearl of Great Price
Oct 2, 20215 min read
Sep 27 Teresa of Avila declared the first female doctor of the church
Today in 1970 and travel to Rome where Pope Paul VI finally named the Spanish Mystic and reformer, Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada, a...
Pearl of Great Price
Oct 2, 20213 min read
Sep 26 Abraham Lincolns call for prayer and fasting
1861 and travel to Washington DC in North America where today President Abraham Lincoln recommended a day of public humiliation, prayer,...
Pearl of Great Price
Oct 2, 20214 min read
Sep 25 Rudolph Otto and the Idea of the Holy
Today in 1869 we remember the birth near Hannover in Germany of Rudolph Otto. He is now regarded as one of the most influential...
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