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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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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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