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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
Jul 30, 20213 min read
July 30 Johann Sebastian Bach
Today in 1750 the body of Johan Sebastian Bach was laid to rest in an unmarked grave at the churchyard of St. John’s, Leipzig. The...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 25, 20216 min read
June 26 Beauty, Truth & Goodness - Hans Urs von Balthazar
Today in 1988 we remember the death of one of the greatest theological minds of the 20th Century. Hans Urs Von Balthazar died just two...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 28, 20214 min read
Mar 29 The Foundling Hospital in London
Today we remember how Thomas Coram, an English naval captain started the Foundling Hospital for abandoned children in 1751 in London....
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 22, 20211 min read
Feb 23 Handel's Messiah
Today we remember the birth of : George Frederick Handel, composer of the oratorio "Messiah," which is now one of the best-known and...
Pearl of Great Price
Jan 29, 20214 min read
Jan 14 - Albert Schweitzer Born
Today in 1875, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Theologian and Missionary, Albert Schweitzer was born. We look at his remarkable life and mixed...
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