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Oct 5 Uganda -Ecumenism of Blood

Today Christians took control of the government after enduring years of persecution which had triggered a rebellion. The victory was in...

Oct 12, 20215 min read

Sep 28 The Obelisk that 'witnessed' St Peters Death

We go back to year 1586 and travel to Rome where a large pink granite obelisk known as "The Witness", was moved to its present location...

Sep 20, 20216 min read

Sep 12 Richard Challoner - leading under pressure

Richard Challoner would become the leading figure of English Catholicism for the greater part of the eighteenth century. He was bright...

Sep 9, 20214 min read

Sep 4 Croatia, Fascism, Catholics & Orthodox

Today in 1941, the abbot of the Sisatovac monastery in Croatia, Rafailo Momcilovic would die, he had been kidnapped by the Ustaše on 25...

Aug 14, 20214 min read

Aug 14 Maximillian Kolbe

Today in Poland, the Franciscan Maximilian Kolbe volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the German concentration camp at Auschwitz....

Aug 11, 20213 min read

Aug 9 Herman the Wonderworker of all Alaska

Today in 1970, a solemn liturgy at Holy Resurrection Orthodox Cathedral on Kodiak Island, Alaska, glorified St. Herman, as the...

Jun 30, 20213 min read

July 1 The Boxer Uprising leads the first martyr from Yale

American missionary Horace Tracy Pitkin was beheaded when a mob burst into his Mission compound as part of the Boxer Uprising. This was...

May 7, 20216 min read

May 8 Jean Vianney rebuilding souls in the ashes of Revolution

The French Revolution became a concerted and violent attempt to build a new Society. Their attempts to De-Christianise the culture were...

Apr 7, 20215 min read

Apr 8 Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Nazis

Today we take the dark journey back to 1945 and travel to Germany and the Flossenbürg concentration camp. The theologian Dietrich...

Feb 13, 20211 min read

Feb 14 Who was St Valentine?

Today we try to get to the bottom of the disputed identity of St Valentine. Hi feast day was established by Pope Gelasius in 496.... but...

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