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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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