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...
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Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 29, 2021
- 3 min
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 28, 2021
- 4 min
June 29 Poet of the Spirit - Elizabeth Barret Browning
Today we travel to Florence in Italy where the English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning died. Married to another poet – Robert Browning,...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 27, 2021
- 3 min
June 28 Monsignor Benson's Lord of the World
Today in 1906 Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson finished his dystopian science fiction novel called Lord of the World that centres upon the...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 26, 2021
- 5 min
June 27 Rene Girard - Mimetic Desire & the Scapegoat
year 2008 and travel to St Andrews in Scotland were the French polymath, Rene Girard was given honorary degree at St Andrews. Beginning...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 25, 2021
- 6 min
June 26 Beauty, Truth & Goodness - Hans Urs von Balthazar
Today in 1988 we remember the death of one of the greatest theological minds of the 20th Century. Hans Urs Von Balthazar died just two...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 24, 2021
- 4 min
June 25 The secret encyclical condemning Nazism
Today we remember how in a remarkable meeting in Rome Pope Pius XI missioned the American Jesuit John LaFarge to draft an encyclical on...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 23, 2021
- 5 min
June 24 The last 'crusade' of Billy Graham
It was in Flushing Meadows in New York where the American evangelist Billy Graham today began what he said would be his last North...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 22, 2021
- 3 min
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 21, 2021
- 3 min
June 22 The First Native North American Saint
Today we remember the beatification of Kateri Takakwitha, a Mohawk woman. Born in 1656 in what is now New York state, she belonged to...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 21, 2021
- 3 min
June 21 The Man who wanted to feed the world
Today in 1834 in Chicago, Cyrus McCormick, a Christian inventor died. He patented the world’s first workable agricultural reaper,...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 21, 2021
- 4 min
June 20 Fr George Lemaitre and the Big Bang
The pioneering priest and physicist George Lemaitre died today. He is famous for proposing the "Big Bang theory" of the origin of the...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 21, 2021
- 3 min
June 19 Acton - Power Corrupts, Absolute Power corrupts absolutely
Today in 1902 Lord Acton died. John Acton was the English Catholic historian, died in Bavaria, Germany. Now famous for his saying...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 21, 2021
- 4 min
June 18 Laudato Si - Caring for our common home
Today in 2015, the ground-breaking encyclical Laudato Si was published. Building on the body of the Church’s social teaching it ...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 21, 2021
- 3 min
June 17 The Tolpuddle Martyrs
George Loveless, a ploughman, community leader and Methodist preacher returned from exile today in 1837, from what was then known as Van...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 21, 2021
- 4 min
June 16 John Henry Newman and Lead Kindly Light
In 1833 the young Anglican priest John Henry Newman, while traveling on a ship from Italy to France, wrote the words to the hymn, “Lead...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 14, 2021
- 3 min
June 15 Archbishop Stephen Langton and Magna Carta
The energetic leadership and conciliatory skills of Archbishop Stephen Langton forced King John to grant his seal to Magna Carta at...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 13, 2021
- 5 min
June 14 The Hungarian church bravely defies the Communists
Today we remember how church bells rung out, bravely, around the country in defiance of the Communist party in Hungary who had severely...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 12, 2021
- 3 min
June 13 The Doctor who discovered the causes of Downs Syndrome and then became their defender
Jérôme Jean Louis Marie Lejeune was born today in 1926. He would become a medical doctor and was a pioneering researcher all his life. ...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 11, 2021
- 4 min
June 12 St Petersburg outlasts Leningrad
On the 12 June 1991, the citizens of Leningrad overwhelming voted to return the name of the city to St Petersburg. It was a clear...
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