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Mrs. Yukiko Sugihara, who had helped her husband, Chiune, rescue thousands of Jews from Lithuania during World War II. They were a...
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Pearl of Great Price
- Sep 28, 2021
- 3 min
Sep 23 - Khomiakov, Russian Theologian of Community
Today in 1860 we remember the Death from cholera of the Russian theologian Alexei Khomiakov, while treating peasants during an epidemic....
Pearl of Great Price
- Sep 20, 2021
- 6 min
Sep 13 Dostoevsky and the Brothers Karamazov
Today in Christian History we go back to year 1874 and travel to Russia where today the writer Fyodor Doestoevsky finished the first...
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
- Aug 28, 2021
- 3 min
Apr 25 Ivan the Terrible's Monk
Today in 1549, Adrian of Ondrusov, an Orthodox monk died after being killed by robbers. Now venerated by the Orthodox church as a saint,...
Pearl of Great Price
- Aug 11, 2021
- 3 min
Aug 9 Herman the Wonderworker of all Alaska
Today in 1970, a solemn liturgy at Holy Resurrection Orthodox Cathedral on Kodiak Island, Alaska, glorified St. Herman, as the...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 31, 2021
- 3 min
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...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 6, 2021
- 6 min
July 7 Alexander Solzhenitsyn Repenting in the Gulag
The Russian writer Alexander Solzenhitsyn was sentenced in his absence to an eight year term in a labour camp in Siberia. He would be...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 4, 2021
- 4 min
July 4 Pulcheria and the Theotokos
Today in 432 a large crowd descended on the church in Constantinople cheering “Many years to Pulcheria! Many years to the empress!” They...
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 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...
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 6, 2021
- 3 min
May 7 The Pope visits Romania, building bridges with the Orthodox
At the turn of the Millennium the first Slavic Pope, John Paul II made big steps towards reconciliation with the Orthodox Church. This...
Pearl of Great Price
- Apr 3, 2021
- 3 min
Apr 4 Easter Sunday
Today in the West, Christians celebrate Easter, the touchstone of the Christian Faith. In todays reflection we look at the boldness of...
Pearl of Great Price
- Mar 26, 2021
- 3 min
Mar 25 The emperor who became a monk
Today in 717 we travel to Constantinople when Emperor Theodosius III abdicated and retired to a monastery with his son. In the podcast...
Pearl of Great Price
- Mar 8, 2021
- 3 min
Mar 9 Sebaste Martyrs - frozen to death
Its 320, the final years of the Roman Empire and we travel to Turkey, remembering how today 40 Roman Soldiers froze to death rather than...
Pearl of Great Price
- Feb 21, 2021
- 1 min
Feb 21 - World Council of Churches
Today we go back to year 1991 and travel to Canberra in Australia, and the closing of the 7th assembly of the World Council of Churches. ...
Pearl of Great Price
- Feb 11, 2021
- 1 min
Feb 12 - Pope and Patriach meet in Cuba
Today we only go back to 2016 and look at a truly historical meeting, the first time the leaders of the Catholic Church and the Moscow...
Pearl of Great Price
- Feb 2, 2021
- 3 min
Feb 2 - Candlemas
Today Christians all over the world celebrate the Feast of the Presentation of Jesus in the temple. In the Spanish Speaking world the...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jan 31, 2021
- 3 min
Jan 24 - Russia adopts the Gregorian calendar
Today in 1918 the Gregorian calendar was introduced in Russia by decree of the Council of People's Commissars. This brought another...