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Sep 21, 20214 min read

Sep 15 Dominic and the miraculous painting

Today in 1530 a supposed 'miraculous' portrait of Saint Dominic appeared in Calabria, in the South of Italy. The image has garnered...

Jul 27, 20216 min read

July 27 Bonhoeffers Parents find out he is dead through the BBC

Today Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s, parents learnt of his execution by Nazis at Flossenberg concentration camp through a radio broadcast from...

Jul 24, 20214 min read

July 24 Christine, the Beguines & the Bollandists

Today in 1242 the mystic Christine von Stommeln was born near Cologne. We look at her unusual life - and how it took her to the...

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...

Jun 7, 20214 min read

June 8 Gustavo Gutierrez and Liberation Theology

Gustavo Gutierrez, the Peruvian Dominican priest is seen by many as the father of Latin American Liberation Theology. We look at his...

Mar 26, 20213 min read

Mar 27 Meister Eckharts eco-mysticism

Today in 1329 Pope John XXII issued a bull condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical. In todays pod we look at his...

Mar 2, 20211 min read

Mar 3 The First Concordance

Today we go back to year 1263 and look at the pioneering work of the Dominican Cardinal Hugh of Saint-Cher. Producing the first...

Jan 25, 20213 min read

Jan 7 - Galileo starts a revolution

Today in 1610 the Italian Astronomer Galileo made his first observation of the four largest satellites of Jupiter, which are now named...

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