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Pearl of Great Price
Sep 28, 20213 min read
Sep 20 Christianity in Korea
Today in 1884 we remember how Dr. Horace Newton Allen arrived in Chemulpo, Korea, praying for an opportunity to evangelize Korea, where...
Pearl of Great Price
Sep 26, 20214 min read
Sep 19 George Hebert - poet of the moderate centre
Today in 1630 the Welsh-born poet, George Herbert was ordained a priest in the Church of England, spending the rest of his life as the...
Pearl of Great Price
Sep 25, 20213 min read
Sep 18 Rev George Macdonald and Goblins
Today we remember the death in 1905 of the Scottish clergyman George MacDonald who wrote novels to support himself. He is best remembered...
Pearl of Great Price
Sep 25, 20214 min read
Sep 17 Adrienne von Speyr
Today we remember the death of the Swiss doctor and mystic Adrienne von Speyr. Born and raised during the early twentieth century in a...
Pearl of Great Price
Sep 24, 20213 min read
Sep 16 The Bishop and the first convicted serial killer
Today in 1440, Gilles de Rais, one of the earliest known serial killers, was taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by...
Pearl of Great Price
Sep 21, 20214 min read
Sep 15 Dominic and the miraculous painting
Today in 1530 a supposed 'miraculous' portrait of Saint Dominic appeared in Calabria, in the South of Italy. The image has garnered...
Pearl of Great Price
Sep 21, 20213 min read
Sep 14 Dom Perignon and monastic wine making
Today in 1715 the Benedictine monk and cellar Master Dom Pierre Perignon died at the age of 77. He did not invent the sparkling white...
Pearl of Great Price
Sep 20, 20216 min read
Sep 13 Dostoevsky and the Brothers Karamazov
Today in Christian History we go back to year 1874 and travel to Russia where today the writer Fyodor Doestoevsky finished the first...
Pearl of Great Price
Sep 20, 20216 min read
Sep 12 Richard Challoner - leading under pressure
Richard Challoner would become the leading figure of English Catholicism for the greater part of the eighteenth century. He was bright...
Pearl of Great Price
Sep 20, 20215 min read
Sep 11 Bartolome de la Casas
Today in the Spanish priest and fierce defender of indigenous peoples Bartolome de la casas ended his term as bishop of Chiapas in...
Pearl of Great Price
Sep 15, 20215 min read
Sep 10 Jung, Religion and the Collective Unconscious
Today at Yale University, Carl Jung’s Terry lectures on Psychology and Religion were published. He had delivered the lectures in 1938...
Pearl of Great Price
Sep 15, 20215 min read
Sep 9 - Michael Novak, Theology of Capital
Michael Novak would become the author of more than forty books on the philosophy and theology of culture, and was most famous for the...
Pearl of Great Price
Sep 14, 20214 min read
Sep 8 Worshipping God through discovering Genes
Today in 1989 the journal Science published the results of the work of Francis Collins who identified the gene which explained cystic...
Pearl of Great Price
Sep 14, 20213 min read
Sep 7 The Jos Riots
Today we travel to central Nigeria where in the city of Jos terrible riots began today between Christians and Muslims. They were to last...
Pearl of Great Price
Sep 14, 20215 min read
Sep 6 Blaise Pascal, Jansenism and Salvation
Today in 1657 the Vatican placed Blaise Pascal’s Provincial Letters on the Index of Prohibited Books. The Index Librorum Prohibitorum...
Pearl of Great Price
Sep 9, 20213 min read
Sep 5 Joseph Beran - Courage in front of totalitarianism
Today in 1942 the Czech priest Joseph Beran was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp. He was given number 25844 after the Nazis...
Pearl of Great Price
Sep 9, 20214 min read
Sep 4 Croatia, Fascism, Catholics & Orthodox
Today in 1941, the abbot of the Sisatovac monastery in Croatia, Rafailo Momcilovic would die, he had been kidnapped by the Ustaše on 25...
Pearl of Great Price
Sep 8, 20214 min read
Sep 3 The Heliand - Old Norse Epic Poem about the life of Christ
Today in 1830 the first complete edition of the Heliand was published by Johann Andreas Schmeller. This was a ninth century epic poem...
Pearl of Great Price
Sep 8, 20215 min read
Sep 2 Seraphim Rose - American Orthodox Ascetic
Today we we go back to year 1982 and travel to Redding in Northern California where Seraphim Rose an American priest-monk of the Russian...
Pearl of Great Price
Sep 2, 20214 min read
Sep 1 Fr Dowling's Spiritual Exercises and the AA movement
Edward Dowling was born today in 1898. He would be ordained a priest and become the advisor to Bill Wilson who founded Alcoholic...
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