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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 9, 20211 min read
Feb 10 St Paul shipwrecked in Malta
Today Christians in Malta remembers the Shipwreck of St Paul. Described in Acts of the Apostles on Pauls journey to Rome they were...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 9, 20211 min read
Feb 9 Unexploded Bomb in Genoa Cathedral
Today in 1941 a targeting error by a gunnery officer on board a British warship some thirteen miles offshore caused an armour-piercing...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 8, 20211 min read
Feb 8 Anti slavery Quaker Benjamin Lay
Todays marks the death of remarkable man, Benjamin Lay. I am not aware of any other 4ft hunchback who has changed the world in quite the...
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 6, 20213 min read
Feb 6 Cristeros War
Today we go back to year 1927 and remember the death of Matteo Correa Magallanes an innocent Victim of Mexico's Cristeros War. An...
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 4 - Mormons journey to Utah
Today on Feb 4 we remember how the Church of the Latter Day Saints left their wintering grounds in search of a safe place to establish...
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
Feb 1, 20216 min read
Feb 1 - Translating the Bible
Today we remember the life and work of Erasmus the Dutch priest and 'Prince amongst Humanists'. This is the day in 1516 he dedicated his...
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, 20215 min read
Jan 30 - Cromwell and the day of two Executions
Today in 1661 the puritan, Oliver Cromwell, and former Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, was ritually executed more than two...
Pearl of Great Price
Jan 31, 20213 min read
Jan 29 - Martin Luther's Wife
Today in 1552 Katharina von Bora was born, she became known as the ‘Lutheress’ because at the age of 26 she was to marry the reformer...
Pearl of Great Price
Jan 31, 20213 min read
Jan 28 - Excommunicating an Emperor
Today we remember in 1077 the famous midwinter penitential Walk to Canossa by King Henry IV, the Holy Roman Emperor. Henry petitioned...
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 26 - India becomes a republic, Mukherjee is vice-president
Today in 1950 the Constitution of India came into force, forming a republic. An ancient, massive and deeply religious country with 80%...
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 31, 20213 min read
Jan 24 - Russia adopts the Gregorian calendar
Today in 1918 the Gregorian calendar was introduced in Russia by decree of the Council of People's Commissars. This brought another...
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