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Pearl of Great Price
Oct 15, 20213 min read
Oct 2 Mindzenty of Hungary
Today in 1945 we travel to Hungary where Josef Mindzentsy was appointed Archbishop and leader of the Catholic Church - a position with...
Pearl of Great Price
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...
Pearl of Great Price
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...
Pearl of Great Price
Aug 6, 20213 min read
Aug 7 The first 'mega-mass' in Munich -1960
On this day in Christian History we go back to year 1960 and travel to Munich where the 37th International Eucharistic Congress finished...
Pearl of Great Price
Jul 29, 20217 min read
July 29 Humane Vitae - Prophetic or Overreach?
Today in 1968 a press conference launched the controversial papal encyclical Humanae Vitae. It would be the last of Paul VI's 7...
Pearl of Great Price
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...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 29, 20214 min read
Apr 30 Divine Mercy and the Polish Mystic
Today in the year 2000, the Polish Mystic Faustina Kowalska was declared a saint in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine...
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