May 11 Irish Monasticism
Today we mark the death of Comgall in the 7th Century and the birth of Irish Monasticism which developed some important distinctive...
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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 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...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 14, 20211 min read
Feb 15 A Hermit from Lebanon brings faiths together
Today in 1875, a Maronite monk Charbel Makhlouf became a Hermit and entered the Hermitage of St Peter and St Paul on Mount Lebanon. It...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 13, 20211 min read
Feb 14 Who was St Valentine?
Today we try to get to the bottom of the disputed identity of St Valentine. Hi feast day was established by Pope Gelasius in 496.... but...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 10, 20211 min read
Feb 11 First apparition in Lourdes
We travel to France, where today when a barely literate 14-year old girl, Bernadette Soubirous told her mother that a "lady" had spoken...
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
Feb 9, 20211 min read
Feb 9 Unexploded Bomb in Genoa Cathedral
Today in 1941 a targeting error by a gunnery officer on board a British warship some thirteen miles offshore caused an armour-piercing...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 6, 20213 min read
Feb 6 Cristeros War
Today we go back to year 1927 and remember the death of Matteo Correa Magallanes an innocent Victim of Mexico's Cristeros War. An...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 5, 20213 min read
Feb 5 - Japans hidden Christians
Today we remember 26 Christians who were crucified in Nagasaki in 1597. Tracing the rollercoaster story of Christianity in Japan, early...
Pearl of Great Price
Jan 31, 20214 min read
Jan 31 - Youseff Karam, St Maron & Lebanon
Today in 1867 the Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Karam left Lebanon on board of a French ship for Algeria, to begin his second...
Pearl of Great Price
Jan 31, 20213 min read
Jan 28 - Excommunicating an Emperor
Today we remember in 1077 the famous midwinter penitential Walk to Canossa by King Henry IV, the Holy Roman Emperor. Henry petitioned...
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 26, 20212 min read
Jan 10 John Paul II & Ronald Reagan
On Jan 10 1984 The United States and the Vatican established full diplomatic relations for the first time in 117 years. This was mainly...
Pearl of Great Price
Jan 25, 20211 min read
Jan 8 Gauchito Gil - Argentina's folk saint
Today in 1878 saw the death of Antonio Mamerto Gil Núñez, popularly known as Gauchito Gill, who has become the most prominent folk hero...
Pearl of Great Price
Jan 21, 20213 min read
Jan 3 - The Apostle to the Lepers
Jozef De Veuster was born today in 1840. He became known worldwide as Father Damien for his life dedicated to and living with lepers in...
Pearl of Great Price
Jan 21, 20211 min read
Jan 2 - A New Mission A New Name
On the second of January, 553. Mercurius, a Roman priest from St Clements Basilica, became Pope John II, and was the first pope to adopt...
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