July 31 Tsarist Troops storm Mount Athos
Today in 1913, Russian troops stormed the St Panteleimon Monastery on Mount Athos and deported about 80 Russian monks, Six months earlier...
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Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 30, 2021
- 3 min
July 30 Johann Sebastian Bach
Today in 1750 the body of Johan Sebastian Bach was laid to rest in an unmarked grave at the churchyard of St. John’s, Leipzig. The...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 29, 2021
- 7 min
July 29 Humane Vitae - Prophetic or Overreach?
Today in 1968 a press conference launched the controversial papal encyclical Humanae Vitae. It would be the last of Paul VI's 7...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 27, 2021
- 4 min
July 28 The Iron Age Stone which tells story of Israel
Today an English archaeologist, Flinders Petrie discovered a remarkable stone with an inscription on it by the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 27, 2021
- 6 min
July 27 Bonhoeffers Parents find out he is dead through the BBC
Today Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s, parents learnt of his execution by Nazis at Flossenberg concentration camp through a radio broadcast from...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 27, 2021
- 5 min
July 26 Padre Pio
Today in 1919, Dr Amico Bignami conducted an investigation into the strange wounds that had appeared on the body of Francesco Forgione, a...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 27, 2021
- 5 min
July 25 Left Behind, the Rapture & Armageddon
Today in 2016 in San Diego, the American Baptist pastor and author Tim LaHaye, died aged 90. He will be remembered as the author of the...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 24, 2021
- 4 min
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
- Jul 24, 2021
- 4 min
July 23 Cuba's Hurricane Priest
The Jesuit priest Benito Vines spent decades observing the skies at the Belen Observatory in colonial Cuba. He is now seen as a pioneer...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 22, 2021
- 5 min
July 22 Mary Magdalene
Today in 2016 Pope Francis passed a decree declaring a major feast day in honour of Mary Magdalene to be celebrated annually on July...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 22, 2021
- 4 min
July 21 Marcelo Glasier - Wonder and Cosmology
Today Marcelo Glasier, published a fascinating book, The Prophet and the Astronomer: Apocalyptic Science and the End of the World. It was...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 22, 2021
- 4 min
July 20 Buzz Aldrin takes communion on the Moon
The astronaut Buzz Aldrin took communion on the surface of the moon after landing successfully with the Apollo 11 mission. This was the...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 19, 2021
- 4 min
July 19 Great Fire of Rome and the death of Peter & Paul
On the 17th of July in the year 63 a Great Fire broke among the shops lining the Circus Maximus, Rome’s chariot stadium. It seemed as...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 17, 2021
- 3 min
July 18 Birmingham City
Today we remember how 6 members of the choir from Holy Trinity Church in Bordsley, Birmingham, decided to form a football club so as to...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 17, 2021
- 4 min
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
- Jul 16, 2021
- 4 min
July 16 Innocent III - Papal hard and soft power
Today in 1216 one of the most consequential Popes of the Medieval Era, Pope Innocent III died. As the head of the Catholic Church and...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 14, 2021
- 5 min
July 15 - Nanette, the velvet brick and mother of slaves
We remember an extraordinary French woman Anne-Marie Javouhey, often known as Nanette. who died today at the age of 72. One of her last...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 14, 2021
- 4 min
July 14 St Marks Tower collapses in Venice
Today in 1902 the famous Campanile or Bell Tower in St Mark's Square, collapsed, demolishing the loggetta beneath it. No one was injured...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 13, 2021
- 8 min
July 13 C.S Lewis - A Grief Observed
Today we remember how the wife of C.S. Lewis died from cancer. Clive Staples Lewis was ranked eleventh on the Times newspaper list of...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 12, 2021
- 4 min
July 12 The Fall of Jerusalem and Destroying the Temple
Today we remember how in AD 70 the armies of the Roman Emperor Titus attacked the walls of Jerusalem after a six-month siege, starting...
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