June 1 The Dead Sea Scrolls
A Bedouin shepherd throwing a stone into a cave on the shore of the Dead Sea was puzzled by the cracking sound within. Investigating he...
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Pearl of Great Price
- May 31, 2021
- 4 min
May 31 CELAM 5, Aparecida and Pope Francis
Today we look at the short history of the Latin American Bishops Conference, their most recent meeting in Mexico at Aparecida and how...
Pearl of Great Price
- May 29, 2021
- 3 min
May 30 The Confessing Church resisting the Nazis
Today in 1934 the first synod of the Confessing Church ended. They issued the important Barmen Declaration. An important and brave...
Pearl of Great Price
- May 28, 2021
- 4 min
May 29 G.K.Chesterton's quest for orthodoxy
One of the greatest writers in the English language at the beginning of the 20th Century. On an intense spiritual journey that took him...
Pearl of Great Price
- May 27, 2021
- 3 min
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
- May 26, 2021
- 3 min
May 27 The oldest continuing legal system
The Body of Canon law is historically continuous from the early church to the present, and such can claim to be the oldest functioning...
Pearl of Great Price
- May 25, 2021
- 4 min
May 26 Barnardo's
Today in Dublin in 1826, a teenager with a big heart an a desire to do something important called Thomas Bernardo experienced an...
Pearl of Great Price
- May 24, 2021
- 6 min
May 25 The Ecumenical Imperative
it’s the 25th of May and on this day in Christian History we go back to year 1995 and travel to Rome where Ut Unum Sint, the first...
Pearl of Great Price
- May 23, 2021
- 3 min
May 24 John Wesley's Conversion
In Aldersgate, London, Anglican priest John Wesley had an experience in the middle of a spiritual crisis which lead to establishment of...
Pearl of Great Price
- May 22, 2021
- 3 min
May 23 The Baptist Slave rebellion in Jamaica
Samuel Sharpe was hanged today in Jamaica for his role in organising as slave uprising referred to by historians as 'The Baptist War'. ...
Pearl of Great Price
- May 21, 2021
- 3 min
May 22 Papal Rome and the Trevi Fountain
Today the famous Trevi Fountain was finished by Pannini, and was officially opened and inaugurated on this day by Pope Clement XIII. We...
Pearl of Great Price
- May 20, 2021
- 3 min
May 21 Attacking the Pieta
Today in St Peters, Rome, a 33 year old man called Lazlo Toth, wielding a geologist's hammer shouted, "I am Jesus Christ — risen from the...
Pearl of Great Price
- May 19, 2021
- 3 min
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 18, 2021
- 3 min
May 19 Alcuin of York, innovator of the Capital Letter
Alcuin was one of the greatest minds of the Eight Century. Spearheading the educational reform of the Court of Charlemagne, he advanced...
Pearl of Great Price
- May 17, 2021
- 3 min
May 18 The Kidnapping of a Megachurch founder
Canadian Aimee Semple McPherson was a pioneer of evangelism. Faith-healer, founder of the Foursquare Gospel Church and builder of the...
Pearl of Great Price
- May 16, 2021
- 3 min
May 17 Marquette Mapping the Mississippi
We remember the historical expedition of missionary Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet, a French-Canadian explorer to explore the...
Pearl of Great Price
- May 15, 2021
- 5 min
May 16 Did Brendan discover N. America 1000 years before Columbus?
A book known as Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis (Voyage of Saint Brendan the Abbot) full of exploration, religious symbolism, and...
Pearl of Great Price
- May 14, 2021
- 6 min
May 15 The Pope, Workers Rights and Rerum Novarum
Seen by many as the start of Catholic Social teaching - this encyclical of Leo XIII has the unique distinction of being followed by two...
Pearl of Great Price
- May 13, 2021
- 3 min
May 14 Salem's Witch Trials
The town of Salem in Massachusetts witnessed an outbreak of 'Witch Trials' that lead to the execution of 19 people and destroyed the...
Pearl of Great Price
- May 12, 2021
- 5 min
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...
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