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...
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Pearl of Great Price
- Oct 2, 2021
- 4 min
Sep 25 Rudolph Otto and the Idea of the Holy
Today in 1869 we remember the birth near Hannover in Germany of Rudolph Otto. He is now regarded as one of the most influential...
Pearl of Great Price
- Sep 30, 2021
- 3 min
Sep 24 The Venerable Bede
Today in the year 654 the first general council of the Anglo-Saxon Church opened. It was convened in Hertford, by Theodore of Tarsus,...
Pearl of Great Price
- Sep 28, 2021
- 3 min
Sep 21 Rev Thomas Bayes - father of statistics
Today in 1701 Thomas Bayes was born into a prominent nonconformist family from Sheffield. He would be known for formulating: Bayes'...
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 15, 2021
- 5 min
Sep 10 Jung, Religion and the Collective Unconscious
Today at Yale University, Carl Jung’s Terry lectures on Psychology and Religion were published. He had delivered the lectures in 1938...
Pearl of Great Price
- Sep 14, 2021
- 4 min
Sep 8 Worshipping God through discovering Genes
Today in 1989 the journal Science published the results of the work of Francis Collins who identified the gene which explained cystic...
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
- Aug 30, 2021
- 4 min
Aug 29 Faraday discovers Electricity
Today the great experimentalist Michael Faraday induced the first electrical current. Faraday would later use the principles he had...
Pearl of Great Price
- Aug 20, 2021
- 3 min
Aug 19 The Moabite Stone & the Exodus
Its 1868 and we are in Jordan where late in the afternoon during a coffee break, the sheikh of the Banî Hamîdi tribe informed the German...
Pearl of Great Price
- Aug 20, 2021
- 4 min
Aug 17 Excavating Armageddon
Today we travel to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where Clarence Stanley Fisher was born in 1876. He would devote his life to Near Eastern...
Pearl of Great Price
- Aug 11, 2021
- 4 min
Aug 11 Deep Ethics Cosmology - George Ellis
Today in 1939 George Francis Rayner Ellis was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is now the emeritus distinguished professor of...
Pearl of Great Price
- Aug 2, 2021
- 5 min
Aug 2 Edith Stein
Today in 1942 the Carmelite Nun Edith Stein was arrested in her convent in the Netherlands by the SS and taken to Auschwitz concentration...
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 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
- 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 7, 2021
- 3 min
July 8 John Templeton and the Templeton Prize
Today we travel to the Bahamas and remember the death of Sir John Mark Templeton at the age of 95. The year before he died, Templeton...
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 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
- 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 ...