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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
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
May 19, 20213 min read
May 20 I believe ...... The Council of Nicea
Today we remember the first Ecumenical Council of the Church. It is now famous for its Christian statement of belief that is widely used...


Pearl of Great Price
May 12, 20215 min read
May 13 The Shooting of John Paul II
Today we remember an assassination attempt that shocked the world. Its 1981, the last years of the Cold War, and the early years of the...


Pearl of Great Price
Apr 9, 20214 min read
Apr 9 Encyclicals
Today in 475 the Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus releases an Enkyklikon, a circular letter to the bishops of his empire about the...


Pearl of Great Price
Mar 26, 20213 min read
Mar 25 The emperor who became a monk
Today in 717 we travel to Constantinople when Emperor Theodosius III abdicated and retired to a monastery with his son. In the podcast...


Pearl of Great Price
Mar 8, 20213 min read
Mar 9 Sebaste Martyrs - frozen to death
Its 320, the final years of the Roman Empire and we travel to Turkey, remembering how today 40 Roman Soldiers froze to death rather than...
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