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July 20 Buzz Aldrin takes communion on the Moon

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...

July 19 Great Fire of Rome and the death of Peter & Paul

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Jul 19, 20214 min read

July 19 Great Fire of Rome and the death of Peter & Paul

On the 17th of July in the year 63 a Great Fire broke among the shops lining the Circus Maximus, Rome’s chariot stadium. It seemed as...

July 16 Innocent III - Papal hard and soft power

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Jul 16, 20214 min read

July 16 Innocent III - Papal hard and soft power

Today in 1216 one of the most consequential Popes of the Medieval Era, Pope Innocent III died. As the head of the Catholic Church and...

July 15 - Nanette, the velvet brick and mother of slaves

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Jul 14, 20215 min read

July 15 - Nanette, the velvet brick and mother of slaves

We remember an extraordinary French woman Anne-Marie Javouhey, often known as Nanette. who died today at the age of 72. One of her last...

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Jul 13, 20218 min read

July 13 C.S Lewis - A Grief Observed

Today we remember how the wife of C.S. Lewis died from cancer. Clive Staples Lewis was ranked eleventh on the Times newspaper list of...

July 12 The Fall of Jerusalem and Destroying the Temple

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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...

July 7 Alexander Solzhenitsyn Repenting in the Gulag

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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...

July 6 Mircea Eliade and the Eternal Return

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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...

July 5 Thomas Cook transforms temperance into tourism

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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...

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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...

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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...

July 1 The Boxer Uprising leads the first martyr from Yale

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Jun 30, 20213 min read

July 1 The Boxer Uprising leads the first martyr from Yale

American missionary Horace Tracy Pitkin was beheaded when a mob burst into his Mission compound as part of the Boxer Uprising. This was...

June 27 Rene Girard - Mimetic Desire & the Scapegoat

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Jun 26, 20215 min read

June 27 Rene Girard - Mimetic Desire & the Scapegoat

year 2008 and travel to St Andrews in Scotland were the French polymath, Rene Girard was given honorary degree at St Andrews. Beginning...

June 25 The secret encyclical condemning Nazism

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Jun 24, 20214 min read

June 25 The secret encyclical condemning Nazism

Today we remember how in a remarkable meeting in Rome Pope Pius XI missioned the American Jesuit John LaFarge to draft an encyclical on...

June 24 The last 'crusade' of Billy Graham

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Jun 23, 20215 min read

June 24 The last 'crusade' of Billy Graham

It was in Flushing Meadows in New York where the American evangelist Billy Graham today began what he said would be his last North...

June 21 The Man who wanted to feed the world

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Jun 21, 20213 min read

June 21 The Man who wanted to feed the world

Today in 1834 in Chicago, Cyrus McCormick, a Christian inventor died. He patented the world’s first workable agricultural reaper,...

June 18 Laudato Si - Caring for our common home

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Jun 21, 20214 min read

June 18 Laudato Si - Caring for our common home

Today in 2015, the ground-breaking encyclical Laudato Si was published. Building on the body of the Church’s social teaching it ...

June 15 Archbishop Stephen Langton and Magna Carta

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Jun 14, 20213 min read

June 15 Archbishop Stephen Langton and Magna Carta

The energetic leadership and conciliatory skills of Archbishop Stephen Langton forced King John to grant his seal to Magna Carta at...

June 12 St Petersburg outlasts Leningrad

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Jun 11, 20214 min read

June 12 St Petersburg outlasts Leningrad

On the 12 June 1991, the citizens of Leningrad overwhelming voted to return the name of the city to St Petersburg. It was a clear...

June 5 The Sermon that inspired the Riot Act

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Jun 4, 20213 min read

June 5 The Sermon that inspired the Riot Act

Rev Henry Sacheverell had become famous in England for preaching an incendiary sermon on the 5 November. In his impeachment trial by the...

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