Oct 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...
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Pearl of Great Price
- Oct 22, 2021
- 3 min
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...
Pearl of Great Price
- Oct 22, 2021
- 6 min
Oct 7 - Mother Teresa founds her order
Today in 1950, Mother Teresa founded the religious order the Missionaries of Charity. Today she received permission from the Holy See to...
Pearl of Great Price
- Oct 18, 2021
- 4 min
Oct 5 Uganda -Ecumenism of Blood
Today Christians took control of the government after enduring years of persecution which had triggered a rebellion. The victory was in...
Pearl of Great Price
- Oct 15, 2021
- 3 min
Oct 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 Price
- Oct 14, 2021
- 4 min
Oct 1 Guardini - The Lord
Today 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 Price
- Oct 14, 2021
- 5 min
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
- Oct 14, 2021
- 3 min
Sep 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 Price
- Oct 12, 2021
- 5 min
Sep 28 The Obelisk that 'witnessed' St Peters Death
We 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 Price
- Oct 2, 2021
- 5 min
Sep 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 Price
- Sep 25, 2021
- 4 min
Sep 17 Adrienne von Speyr
Today 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 Price
- Sep 21, 2021
- 4 min
Sep 15 Dominic and the miraculous painting
Today in 1530 a supposed 'miraculous' portrait of Saint Dominic appeared in Calabria, in the South of Italy. The image has garnered...
Pearl of Great Price
- Sep 21, 2021
- 3 min
Sep 14 Dom Perignon and monastic wine making
Today 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 Price
- Sep 20, 2021
- 6 min
Sep 12 Richard Challoner - leading under pressure
Richard Challoner would become the leading figure of English Catholicism for the greater part of the eighteenth century. He was bright...
Pearl of Great Price
- Sep 20, 2021
- 5 min
Sep 11 Bartolome de la Casas
Today 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 Price
- Sep 15, 2021
- 5 min
Sep 9 - Michael Novak, Theology of Capital
Michael 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 Price
- Sep 14, 2021
- 5 min
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
- Sep 9, 2021
- 3 min
Sep 5 Joseph Beran - Courage in front of totalitarianism
Today 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 Price
- Sep 9, 2021
- 4 min
Sep 4 Croatia, Fascism, Catholics & Orthodox
Today 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 Price
- Sep 2, 2021
- 4 min
Sep 1 Fr Dowling's Spiritual Exercises and the AA movement
Edward Dowling was born today in 1898. He would be ordained a priest and become the advisor to Bill Wilson who founded Alcoholic...