Oct 9 Father Gabriel Fallopio - Rennaisance Anatomist
Today in 1562 we remember the death of Father Gabriel Fallopio the most illustrious of 16th-century Italian anatomist died. He...
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Pearl of Great Price
Oct 14, 20215 min read
Sep 30 George Tyrell and Modernism
Today in 1907 and a letter in the Times from the priest George Tyrell, and publisjed in London, which was against the papal encyclical...
Pearl of Great Price
Sep 26, 20214 min read
Sep 19 George Hebert - poet of the moderate centre
Today in 1630 the Welsh-born poet, George Herbert was ordained a priest in the Church of England, spending the rest of his life as the...
Pearl of Great Price
Sep 14, 20215 min read
Sep 6 Blaise Pascal, Jansenism and Salvation
Today in 1657 the Vatican placed Blaise Pascal’s Provincial Letters on the Index of Prohibited Books. The Index Librorum Prohibitorum...
Pearl of Great Price
Aug 27, 20216 min read
Aug 22 De Lubac & Spiritual Worldliness
Today we travel to Lyon where the French Jesuit, Henri De Lubac was ordained a priest in 1927. Earlie in his training, the French ...
Pearl of Great Price
Aug 27, 20213 min read
Aug 21 Adam Gifford and the Gifford Lectures
Its 1885, we are in Scotland, where today Lord Adam Giffords’ will was finalised. A large part of his substantial fortune made from a...
Pearl of Great Price
Aug 20, 20214 min read
Aug 18 Filming the Exorcist
Today in Washington the principal photography for The Exorcist began. The film would win two Oscars and become the first horror film to...
Pearl of Great Price
Aug 14, 20214 min read
Aug 13 James Joyce, Faith and Ulysees
We travel to 1903 Dublin , Ireland were the Irish novelist and poet, James Joyce returned to Ireland from studies in Paris when his...
Pearl of Great Price
Jul 17, 20214 min read
July 17 China, Matteo Ricci and the Oldest Newspaper
Ying Lianzhi, a Catholic Manchu aristocrat, founded a newspaper, today, in 1902 in order to, "help China become a modern and democratic...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 30, 20213 min read
July 1 The Boxer Uprising leads the first martyr from Yale
American missionary Horace Tracy Pitkin was beheaded when a mob burst into his Mission compound as part of the Boxer Uprising. This was...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 29, 20213 min read
June 30 Mother Noella - World Expert in Cheese Making
Today we travel to Connecticut in the USA where Martha A. Marcellino was born in 1951. She is now known as Mother Noella Marcellino, a...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 22, 20213 min read
June 23 Walter Ciszek - With God in Russia
Today in 1941 we travel to Russia where the American Jesuit Walter J. Ciszek was arrested under suspicion of being a spy for the Vatican...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 5, 20213 min read
June 6 John Polkinghorne - Science & Religion
Today we remember how in 1982 and travel to where the theoretical physicist John Polkinghorne was ordained an Anglican priest in...
Pearl of Great Price
May 27, 20213 min read
May 28 William Cogate and Tithing
Today we go back to year 1795 and travel to Baltimore where, a young William Colgate arrived in the US and settled in Harford County,...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 20, 20213 min read
Apr 21 Eagleton v Dawkins - Dwight H Terry Lectures
In 2009 the British literary theorist, Terry Eagleton, gave a lecture series titled Faith and Fundamentalism: Is belief in Richard...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 12, 20213 min read
Mar 13 Rev John Harvard and his university
Today we remember how Harvard College was established in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It...
Pearl of Great Price
Jan 31, 20213 min read
Jan 26 - India becomes a republic, Mukherjee is vice-president
Today in 1950 the Constitution of India came into force, forming a republic. An ancient, massive and deeply religious country with 80%...
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