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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...

Sep 2, 20214 min read

Aug 31 - Grunewald, Artist of the Crucifixion

Today we remember the German Renaissance painter Matthias Grunewald who died in 1528. Now famous for his religious art that display...

Aug 27, 20214 min read

Aug 23 The Violent death of Brother Roger of Taizé

Today we travel to Taizé in France where today in 2005 the founder of the world famous ecumenical community was buried days after he had...

Aug 17, 20213 min read

Aug 16 Operation Baptism

Today we got to 1944 Hungary where a dispatch from Angelo Roncalli to the papal nuncio in Hungary illustrated the intensity of...

Jul 31, 20213 min read

July 31 Tsarist Troops storm Mount Athos

Today in 1913, Russian troops stormed the St Panteleimon Monastery on Mount Athos and deported about 80 Russian monks, Six months earlier...

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...

May 10, 20213 min read

May 11 Irish Monasticism

Today we mark the death of Comgall in the 7th Century and the birth of Irish Monasticism which developed some important distinctive...

Jan 31, 20213 min read

Jan 29 - Martin Luther's Wife

Today in 1552 Katharina von Bora was born, she became known as the ‘Lutheress’ because at the age of 26 she was to marry the reformer...

Jan 30, 20213 min read

Jan 20 - How the Church survived Communist Russia

Today in 1918 the Bolshevik-controlled government enacted a Decree that proclaimed separation of church and state in Russia and deprived...

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