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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...

Oct 2, 20213 min read

Sep 26 Abraham Lincolns call for prayer and fasting

1861 and travel to Washington DC in North America where today President Abraham Lincoln recommended a day of public humiliation, prayer,...

Sep 2, 20214 min read

Sep 1 Fr Dowling's Spiritual Exercises and the AA movement

Edward Dowling was born today in 1898. He would be ordained a priest and become the advisor to Bill Wilson who founded Alcoholic...

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...

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...

Jun 4, 20213 min read

June 4 Silencing Prayer in Schools

A landmark case that started in 1982 found that it was not allowed to have a minutes silence in Alabama Schools. Bitterly fought it went...

Jan 30, 20213 min read

Jan 21- The Pilgrim Fathers pray on US Soil

Today in 1621 the Pilgrims from England left their ship the Mayflower and gathered on shore at Plymouth, Massachusetts, for their first...

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