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Pearl of Great Price
Oct 14, 20213 min read
Sep 29 Pope Leo the great and Atilla the Hun
Today Leo was consecrated bishop of Rome becoming the pope. His papacy was very significant, famous for his meeting with Attila the Hun...
Pearl of Great Price
Aug 17, 20213 min read
Aug 15 Cologne Cathedral - 632 years in the making
Today in 1880 Cologne Cathedral was finished. It was Germany's largest cathedral and for four years it was the tallest building in the...
Pearl of Great Price
Jul 31, 20213 min read
July 31 Tsarist Troops storm Mount Athos
Today in 1913, Russian troops stormed the St Panteleimon Monastery on Mount Athos and deported about 80 Russian monks, Six months earlier...
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, 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 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 2, 20213 min read
July 3 Prester John and Marco Polo
For more than 500 years, Europeans believed a Christian king ruled over a vast empire somewhere in the wilds of Africa, India or the Far...
Pearl of Great Price
May 24, 20216 min read
May 25 The Ecumenical Imperative
it’s the 25th of May and on this day in Christian History we go back to year 1995 and travel to Rome where Ut Unum Sint, the first...
Pearl of Great Price
May 6, 20213 min read
May 7 The Pope visits Romania, building bridges with the Orthodox
At the turn of the Millennium the first Slavic Pope, John Paul II made big steps towards reconciliation with the Orthodox Church. This...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 9, 20214 min read
Apr 9 Encyclicals
Today in 475 the Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus releases an Enkyklikon, a circular letter to the bishops of his empire about the...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 26, 20213 min read
Mar 25 The emperor who became a monk
Today in 717 we travel to Constantinople when Emperor Theodosius III abdicated and retired to a monastery with his son. In the podcast...
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