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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
Oct 2, 20215 min read
Sep 27 Teresa of Avila declared the first female doctor of the church
Today in 1970 and travel to Rome where Pope Paul VI finally named the Spanish Mystic and reformer, Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada, a...


Pearl of Great Price
Sep 30, 20213 min read
Sep 24 The Venerable Bede
Today in the year 654 the first general council of the Anglo-Saxon Church opened. It was convened in Hertford, by Theodore of Tarsus,...


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
Jul 30, 20213 min read
July 30 Johann Sebastian Bach
Today in 1750 the body of Johan Sebastian Bach was laid to rest in an unmarked grave at the churchyard of St. John’s, Leipzig. The...


Pearl of Great Price
Jul 27, 20215 min read
July 26 Padre Pio
Today in 1919, Dr Amico Bignami conducted an investigation into the strange wounds that had appeared on the body of Francesco Forgione, a...


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...
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