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Sep 13 Dostoevsky and the Brothers Karamazov

Today in Christian History we go back to year 1874 and travel to Russia where today the writer Fyodor Doestoevsky finished the first...

Aug 14, 20214 min read

Aug 13 James Joyce, Faith and Ulysees

We travel to 1903 Dublin , Ireland were the Irish novelist and poet, James Joyce returned to Ireland from studies in Paris when his...

Jun 11, 20214 min read

June 12 St Petersburg outlasts Leningrad

On the 12 June 1991, the citizens of Leningrad overwhelming voted to return the name of the city to St Petersburg. It was a clear...

May 28, 20214 min read

May 29 G.K.Chesterton's quest for orthodoxy

One of the greatest writers in the English language at the beginning of the 20th Century. On an intense spiritual journey that took him...

Feb 5, 20213 min read

Feb 5 - Japans hidden Christians

Today we remember 26 Christians who were crucified in Nagasaki in 1597. Tracing the rollercoaster story of Christianity in Japan, early...

Jan 31, 20214 min read

Jan 27 - Dante exiled from Florence

Today in 1302, we remember how the Italian poet Dante Alighieri was exiled from Florence. In exile Date wrote the celebrated work The...

Jan 30, 20211 min read

Jan 19 - Premiere of Goethe's Faust

Today in 1829, Germany saw the premiere of Faust. A tragedy in two parts, Goethe's Faust is considered to be the greatest work in German...

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