May 3 The Mark of the Beast and Seventh Day Adventists
The Book of Revelation and its prophesies about the end times has been a favourite theme for conspiracy theorists. Particularly the Sign...
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Pearl of Great Price
May 1, 20213 min read
May 2 The Polymath Priest who studied the Plague
The last polymath of the renaissance era was Fr Antanasius Kircher SJ. A giant among seventeenth-century scholars and at the dawn of the...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 30, 20213 min read
May 1 The Death of David Livingstone
Scottish missionary and explorer David Livingstone was one of the most popular figures in Late Victorian Britain. His legacy is striking,...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 29, 20214 min read
Apr 30 Divine Mercy and the Polish Mystic
Today in the year 2000, the Polish Mystic Faustina Kowalska was declared a saint in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 28, 20217 min read
Apr 29 The Visions of Joan of Arc
Today the fascinating figure of Joan of Arc broke the siege of Orleans in 1429 and possibly delivered France from English domination. A...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 27, 20213 min read
Apr 28 After the Mutiny on the Bounty
The story of the Mutiny is famous and well known but how did it end? Today we look at the story of the surviving mutineer George Adams...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 27, 20213 min read
Apr 27 Milton's Paradise Lost
Today the Puritan poet John Milton sold for ten pounds the copyright of his epic poem Paradise Lost. This lament, written after Cromwell...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 26, 20217 min read
Apr 26 William Shakespeare's Baptism and hidden messages
Today we remember the earliest record we have of William Shakespeares life - April 26th 1564 the day he was baptised in the Holy Trinity...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 24, 20213 min read
Apr 25 Barnsley FC & Muscular Christianity
Today we remember the life and death of the English clergyman Tiverton Preedy. The founder of Barnsley FC, winners of the FA Cup in 1912,...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 23, 20216 min read
Apr 24 Baptism of St Augustine
Today we remember how Augustine of Hippo was baptised by Ambrose in Milan as a 33 year old man - a 'late convert'. His writings and his...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 22, 20213 min read
Apr 23 St George, Windsor and the Order of the Garter
Recently many British Royal Weddings and Funerals have occurred in St Georges Chapel in Windsor, outside of London. It is also the home...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 21, 20213 min read
Apr 22 'In God we Trust' and coins in the USA
Today in 1864 the Coinage Act was passed in Washington DC of this law, the phrase "In God We Trust" first appeared, on the two-cent coin...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 20, 20213 min read
Apr 21 Eagleton v Dawkins - Dwight H Terry Lectures
In 2009 the British literary theorist, Terry Eagleton, gave a lecture series titled Faith and Fundamentalism: Is belief in Richard...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 19, 20213 min read
Apr 20 Angelo Secchi, Spectroscopy and the Papal Yacht
Today the Vaticans astronomer Fr Angelo Secchi came aboard the papal yacht on the Azure waters of the Mediterranean to demonstrate his...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 18, 20213 min read
Apr 19 Reformers become Protestants
In 1526 at the Diet (assembly) of Speyer the reformers became protestants. Today we look at how that happened and what that means. What...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 17, 20216 min read
Apr 18 St Peters Basilica, the biggest church in the world
Today we remember how the cornerstone was laid for St Peters Basilica on the Vatican Hill outside of Rome. We look at the Egyptian...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 16, 20213 min read
Apr 17 The Priest who Mapped the Moon
Today we look at the remarkable life of Giovanni Battista Ricciolo. A priest, professor of astronomer who was the fist person to map the...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 16, 20214 min read
Apr 16 Culloden and the Highland Clearances
The Battle of Culloden was the last major battle fought on British soil. It was the end of the Jacobite Uprising and the killed the final...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 14, 20215 min read
Apr 15 Mandela & Truth and Reconciliation
The achievement of nation building in South Africa has been a beacon and sign of hope for the international community. At a time when...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 13, 20213 min read
Apr 14 The Founding of Poland
Conservative thinkers often refer to 'the estate of marriage' - as providing a stabilising influence on society. Today we remember how...
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