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Jul 14, 20215 min read

July 15 - Nanette, the velvet brick and mother of slaves

We remember an extraordinary French woman Anne-Marie Javouhey, often known as Nanette. who died today at the age of 72. One of her last...

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...

Jun 8, 20217 min read

June 9 Terese of Liseux - The Story of a Soul

At the age of 14, on Christmas Eve in 1886, Therese had a conversion that transformed her life. From then on, her powerful energy and...

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...

May 5, 20214 min read

May 6 The Ghent Altarpiece - the most stolen work of art

Its been described as the most stolen piece of art, the first great oil painting of the Northern Renaissance. A complex multi-panelled...

Apr 28, 20217 min read

Apr 29 The Visions of Joan of Arc

Today the fascinating figure of Joan of Arc broke the siege of Orleans in 1429 and possibly delivered France from English domination. A...

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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