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Pearl of Great Price
Oct 18, 20214 min read
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...


Pearl of Great Price
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...


Pearl of Great Price
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...


Pearl of Great Price
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...


Pearl of Great Price
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....


Pearl of Great Price
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...


Pearl of Great Price
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...


Pearl of Great Price
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...


Pearl of Great Price
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...


Pearl of Great Price
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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