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Pearl of Great Price
Jul 22, 20215 min read
July 22 Mary Magdalene
Today in 2016 Pope Francis passed a decree declaring a major feast day in honour of Mary Magdalene to be celebrated annually on July...
Pearl of Great Price
Jul 22, 20214 min read
July 21 Marcelo Glasier - Wonder and Cosmology
Today Marcelo Glasier, published a fascinating book, The Prophet and the Astronomer: Apocalyptic Science and the End of the World. It was...
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 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...
Pearl of Great Price
Jul 17, 20213 min read
July 18 Birmingham City
Today we remember how 6 members of the choir from Holy Trinity Church in Bordsley, Birmingham, decided to form a football club so as to...
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 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...
Pearl of Great Price
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...
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 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...
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 11 Eric Liddell the Flying Scotsman
Today we remember how the Scottish Missionary Eric Liddell won the Olympic 400-meter race in Paris after he had rejected an opportunity...
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 8, 20213 min read
July 9 Brazil, a Papal stampede and Dom Helder Camara
Today in 1980 some people died in a stampede trying to get in to see Pope John Paul II in a soccer stadium in Fortaleza, Brazil. The...
Pearl of Great Price
Jul 7, 20213 min read
July 8 John Templeton and the Templeton Prize
Today we travel to the Bahamas and remember the death of Sir John Mark Templeton at the age of 95. The year before he died, Templeton...
Pearl of Great Price
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...
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 4, 20214 min read
July 4 Pulcheria and the Theotokos
Today in 432 a large crowd descended on the church in Constantinople cheering “Many years to Pulcheria! Many years to the empress!” They...
Pearl of Great Price
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...
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...
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