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Pearl of Great Price
Jun 21, 20214 min read
June 20 Fr George Lemaitre and the Big Bang
The pioneering priest and physicist George Lemaitre died today. He is famous for proposing the "Big Bang theory" of the origin of the...
Pearl of Great Price
May 20, 20213 min read
May 21 Attacking the Pieta
Today in St Peters, Rome, a 33 year old man called Lazlo Toth, wielding a geologist's hammer shouted, "I am Jesus Christ — risen from the...
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
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, 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, 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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