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Pearl of Great Price
Feb 11, 20211 min read
Feb 12 - Pope and Patriach meet in Cuba
Today we only go back to 2016 and look at a truly historical meeting, the first time the leaders of the Catholic Church and the Moscow...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 10, 20211 min read
Feb 11 First apparition in Lourdes
We travel to France, where today when a barely literate 14-year old girl, Bernadette Soubirous told her mother that a "lady" had spoken...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 6, 20211 min read
Feb 7 The Bonfire of the Vanities
In todays pod, we go back to the 7th of February and the year 1497, and remember how the famous ‘Bonfire of Vanities was lit today by the...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 5, 20213 min read
Feb 5 - Japans hidden Christians
Today we remember 26 Christians who were crucified in Nagasaki in 1597. Tracing the rollercoaster story of Christianity in Japan, early...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 4, 20213 min read
Feb 3 - Guttenberg's Printing Press
Today in 1468 Johannes Gutenberg combined various elements, of movable type, oil based ink and a mechanical system allowed the mass...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 2, 20213 min read
Feb 2 - Candlemas
Today Christians all over the world celebrate the Feast of the Presentation of Jesus in the temple. In the Spanish Speaking world the...
Pearl of Great Price
Jan 31, 20214 min read
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...
Pearl of Great Price
Jan 31, 20214 min read
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
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
Jan 30, 20213 min read
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, 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
Jan 29, 20212 min read
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 25, 20213 min read
Jan 9 - The worlds largest procession in Manila
In todays pod we go back to year 1787 and travel to Philippines where in Manila a life-sized image of a dark-skinned, kneeling Jesus...
Pearl of Great Price
Jan 25, 20211 min read
Jan 8 Gauchito Gil - Argentina's folk saint
Today in 1878 saw the death of Antonio Mamerto Gil Núñez, popularly known as Gauchito Gill, who has become the most prominent folk hero...
Pearl of Great Price
Jan 25, 20211 min read
Jan 6 - Building of Washington National Cathedral
Today we remember how in 1893 the Washington National Cathedral was chartered by congress and the charter was signed by President...
Pearl of Great Price
Jan 21, 20211 min read
Jan 5 - Twelfth Night
The fifth of January is the twelfth day of Christmas and so today we look at the rich tradition of Twelfth Night. In Spain, Twelfth...
Pearl of Great Price
Jan 21, 20211 min read
Jan 4 - The Scouts 'Duty to God and the King'
Today in 1912 the Scout Association was incorporated throughout the British Empire by royal charter and started its worldwide spread....
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