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...
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Pearl of Great Price
Oct 2, 20215 min read
Sep 27 Teresa of Avila declared the first female doctor of the church
Today in 1970 and travel to Rome where Pope Paul VI finally named the Spanish Mystic and reformer, Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada, a...
Pearl of Great Price
Aug 11, 20216 min read
Aug 10 Salvation Outside the Church
On August 10 1863 Pope Pius IX issued an encyclical Quanto conficiamur in which he expressed the possibility that non-Catholics and...
Pearl of Great Price
Jul 24, 20214 min read
July 24 Christine, the Beguines & the Bollandists
Today in 1242 the mystic Christine von Stommeln was born near Cologne. We look at her unusual life - and how it took her to the...
Pearl of Great Price
Jul 22, 20215 min read
July 22 Mary Magdalene
Today in 2016 Pope Francis passed a decree declaring a major feast day in honour of Mary Magdalene to be celebrated annually on July...
Pearl of Great Price
Jul 19, 20214 min read
July 19 Great Fire of Rome and the death of Peter & Paul
On the 17th of July in the year 63 a Great Fire broke among the shops lining the Circus Maximus, Rome’s chariot stadium. It seemed as...
Pearl of Great Price
May 31, 20214 min read
June 1 The Dead Sea Scrolls
A Bedouin shepherd throwing a stone into a cave on the shore of the Dead Sea was puzzled by the cracking sound within. Investigating he...
Pearl of Great Price
May 23, 20213 min read
May 24 John Wesley's Conversion
In Aldersgate, London, Anglican priest John Wesley had an experience in the middle of a spiritual crisis which lead to establishment of...
Pearl of Great Price
May 15, 20215 min read
May 16 Did Brendan discover N. America 1000 years before Columbus?
A book known as Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis (Voyage of Saint Brendan the Abbot) full of exploration, religious symbolism, and...
Pearl of Great Price
May 10, 20215 min read
May 10 Karl Barth, influential Protestant Theologian
Karl Barth the most influential Protestant theologian of the 20th century was born on May 10th 1886. A leader of the 'Confessing Church'...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 16, 20213 min read
Mar 17 The Mormon Relief Society
On this day in Christian History we go back to year 1842 and travel to Illinois when today the Relief Society of The Church of Jesus...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 9, 20211 min read
Feb 10 St Paul shipwrecked in Malta
Today Christians in Malta remembers the Shipwreck of St Paul. Described in Acts of the Apostles on Pauls journey to Rome they were...
Pearl of Great Price
Jan 31, 20213 min read
Jan 25 - São Paulo founded by missionaries
Today in 1554 a small group of Jesuit missionaries, built a mission on top of a steep hill on the Piratiningha plains . As part of the...
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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