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Pearl of Great Price
Oct 23, 20213 min read
Oct 10 The First Millenial Saint?
We remember today how in Monza in Italy a 15 year old boy Carlo Acutis died of leukaemia. He was a remarkable young man. He stated that...


Pearl of Great Price
Aug 17, 20213 min read
Aug 15 Cologne Cathedral - 632 years in the making
Today in 1880 Cologne Cathedral was finished. It was Germany's largest cathedral and for four years it was the tallest building in the...


Pearl of Great Price
Aug 6, 20213 min read
Aug 6 Conclave
Today in 1494. the first conclave to be held in the Sistine Chapel opened. Concerns about political interference in the election of a...


Pearl of Great Price
Jun 27, 20213 min read
June 28 Monsignor Benson's Lord of the World
Today in 1906 Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson finished his dystopian science fiction novel called Lord of the World that centres upon the...


Pearl of Great Price
Apr 26, 20217 min read
Apr 26 William Shakespeare's Baptism and hidden messages
Today we remember the earliest record we have of William Shakespeares life - April 26th 1564 the day he was baptised in the Holy Trinity...


Pearl of Great Price
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...


Pearl of Great Price
Mar 21, 20214 min read
Mar 21 - Papier Mache Papal Tiara
Today in an extra-ordinary ceremony Pius VII was crowned Pope in a Benedictine Monastery with a temporary papal tiara made of...
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