Pearl of Great PriceOct 23, 20213 minOct 10 The First Millenial Saint?We remember today how in Monza in Italy a 15 year old boy Carlo Acutis died of leukaemia. He was a remarkable young man. He stated that...
Pearl of Great PriceOct 22, 20213 minOct 9 Father Gabriel Fallopio - Rennaisance AnatomistToday in 1562 we remember the death of Father Gabriel Fallopio the most illustrious of 16th-century Italian anatomist died. He...
Pearl of Great PriceOct 22, 20216 minOct 7 - Mother Teresa founds her orderToday in 1950, Mother Teresa founded the religious order the Missionaries of Charity. Today she received permission from the Holy See to...
Pearl of Great PriceOct 18, 20214 minOct 5 Uganda -Ecumenism of BloodToday Christians took control of the government after enduring years of persecution which had triggered a rebellion. The victory was in...
Pearl of Great PriceOct 15, 20213 minOct 2 Mindzenty of Hungary Today in 1945 we travel to Hungary where Josef Mindzentsy was appointed Archbishop and leader of the Catholic Church - a position with...
Pearl of Great PriceOct 14, 20214 minOct 1 Guardini - The LordToday we are Munich in Bavaria, where one of the most creative theologians of the 20th Century, Romano Guardini died in 1968. His...
Pearl of Great PriceOct 14, 20215 minSep 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 PriceOct 14, 20213 minSep 29 Pope Leo the great and Atilla the Hun Today Leo was consecrated bishop of Rome becoming the pope. His papacy was very significant, famous for his meeting with Attila the Hun...
Pearl of Great PriceOct 12, 20215 minSep 28 The Obelisk that 'witnessed' St Peters DeathWe go back to year 1586 and travel to Rome where a large pink granite obelisk known as "The Witness", was moved to its present location...
Pearl of Great PriceOct 2, 20215 minSep 27 Teresa of Avila declared the first female doctor of the church Today in 1970 and travel to Rome where Pope Paul VI finally named the Spanish Mystic and reformer, Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada, a...
Pearl of Great PriceSep 25, 20214 minSep 17 Adrienne von SpeyrToday we remember the death of the Swiss doctor and mystic Adrienne von Speyr. Born and raised during the early twentieth century in a...
Pearl of Great PriceSep 21, 20214 minSep 15 Dominic and the miraculous paintingToday in 1530 a supposed 'miraculous' portrait of Saint Dominic appeared in Calabria, in the South of Italy. The image has garnered...
Pearl of Great PriceSep 21, 20213 minSep 14 Dom Perignon and monastic wine makingToday in 1715 the Benedictine monk and cellar Master Dom Pierre Perignon died at the age of 77. He did not invent the sparkling white...
Pearl of Great PriceSep 20, 20216 minSep 12 Richard Challoner - leading under pressureRichard Challoner would become the leading figure of English Catholicism for the greater part of the eighteenth century. He was bright...
Pearl of Great PriceSep 20, 20215 minSep 11 Bartolome de la CasasToday in the Spanish priest and fierce defender of indigenous peoples Bartolome de la casas ended his term as bishop of Chiapas in...
Pearl of Great PriceSep 15, 20215 minSep 9 - Michael Novak, Theology of CapitalMichael Novak would become the author of more than forty books on the philosophy and theology of culture, and was most famous for the...
Pearl of Great PriceSep 14, 20215 minSep 6 Blaise Pascal, Jansenism and SalvationToday in 1657 the Vatican placed Blaise Pascal’s Provincial Letters on the Index of Prohibited Books. The Index Librorum Prohibitorum...
Pearl of Great PriceSep 9, 20213 minSep 5 Joseph Beran - Courage in front of totalitarianismToday in 1942 the Czech priest Joseph Beran was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp. He was given number 25844 after the Nazis...
Pearl of Great PriceSep 9, 20214 minSep 4 Croatia, Fascism, Catholics & OrthodoxToday in 1941, the abbot of the Sisatovac monastery in Croatia, Rafailo Momcilovic would die, he had been kidnapped by the Ustaše on 25...
Pearl of Great PriceSep 2, 20214 minSep 1 Fr Dowling's Spiritual Exercises and the AA movementEdward Dowling was born today in 1898. He would be ordained a priest and become the advisor to Bill Wilson who founded Alcoholic...