Aug 13 James Joyce, Faith and Ulysees
We travel to 1903 Dublin , Ireland were the Irish novelist and poet, James Joyce returned to Ireland from studies in Paris when his...
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Pearl of Great Price
Aug 12, 20213 min read
Aug 12 Golden Roses & Aparecida
Today in 1967 Pope Paul VI granted a Golden rose to Aparecida Cathedral in Brazil. The Golden Rose is an ornament, which popes have...
Pearl of Great Price
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...
Pearl of Great Price
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...
Pearl of Great Price
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...
Pearl of Great Price
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,...
Pearl of Great Price
Jul 30, 20213 min read
July 30 Johann Sebastian Bach
Today in 1750 the body of Johan Sebastian Bach was laid to rest in an unmarked grave at the churchyard of St. John’s, Leipzig. The...
Pearl of Great Price
Jul 29, 20217 min read
July 29 Humane Vitae - Prophetic or Overreach?
Today in 1968 a press conference launched the controversial papal encyclical Humanae Vitae. It would be the last of Paul VI's 7...
Pearl of Great Price
Jul 27, 20214 min read
July 28 The Iron Age Stone which tells story of Israel
Today an English archaeologist, Flinders Petrie discovered a remarkable stone with an inscription on it by the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh...
Pearl of Great Price
Jul 27, 20215 min read
July 25 Left Behind, the Rapture & Armageddon
Today in 2016 in San Diego, the American Baptist pastor and author Tim LaHaye, died aged 90. He will be remembered as the author of the...
Pearl of Great Price
Jul 24, 20214 min read
July 24 Christine, the Beguines & the Bollandists
Today in 1242 the mystic Christine von Stommeln was born near Cologne. We look at her unusual life - and how it took her to the...
Pearl of Great Price
Jul 22, 20214 min read
July 20 Buzz Aldrin takes communion on the Moon
The astronaut Buzz Aldrin took communion on the surface of the moon after landing successfully with the Apollo 11 mission. This was the...
Pearl of Great Price
Jul 17, 20214 min read
July 17 China, Matteo Ricci and the Oldest Newspaper
Ying Lianzhi, a Catholic Manchu aristocrat, founded a newspaper, today, in 1902 in order to, "help China become a modern and democratic...
Pearl of Great Price
Jul 14, 20214 min read
July 14 St Marks Tower collapses in Venice
Today in 1902 the famous Campanile or Bell Tower in St Mark's Square, collapsed, demolishing the loggetta beneath it. No one was injured...
Pearl of Great Price
Jul 12, 20214 min read
July 12 The Fall of Jerusalem and Destroying the Temple
Today we remember how in AD 70 the armies of the Roman Emperor Titus attacked the walls of Jerusalem after a six-month siege, starting...
Pearl of Great Price
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...
Pearl of Great Price
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...
Pearl of Great Price
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...
Pearl of Great Price
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...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 28, 20214 min read
June 29 Poet of the Spirit - Elizabeth Barret Browning
Today we travel to Florence in Italy where the English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning died. Married to another poet – Robert Browning,...
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