Pearl of Great PriceFeb 11, 20211 minFeb 12 - Pope and Patriach meet in CubaToday 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 PriceFeb 10, 20211 minFeb 11 First apparition in Lourdes We travel to France, where today when a barely literate 14-year old girl, Bernadette Soubirous told her mother that a "lady" had spoken...
Pearl of Great PriceFeb 9, 20211 minFeb 10 St Paul shipwrecked in MaltaToday Christians in Malta remembers the Shipwreck of St Paul. Described in Acts of the Apostles on Pauls journey to Rome they were...
Pearl of Great PriceFeb 9, 20211 minFeb 9 Unexploded Bomb in Genoa CathedralToday in 1941 a targeting error by a gunnery officer on board a British warship some thirteen miles offshore caused an armour-piercing...
Pearl of Great PriceFeb 8, 20211 minFeb 8 Anti slavery Quaker Benjamin Lay Todays marks the death of remarkable man, Benjamin Lay. I am not aware of any other 4ft hunchback who has changed the world in quite the...
Pearl of Great PriceFeb 6, 20211 minFeb 7 The Bonfire of the VanitiesIn todays pod, we go back to the 7th of February and the year 1497, and remember how the famous ‘Bonfire of Vanities was lit today by the...
Pearl of Great PriceFeb 6, 20213 minFeb 6 Cristeros War Today we go back to year 1927 and remember the death of Matteo Correa Magallanes an innocent Victim of Mexico's Cristeros War. An...
Pearl of Great PriceFeb 5, 20213 minFeb 5 - Japans hidden Christians Today we remember 26 Christians who were crucified in Nagasaki in 1597. Tracing the rollercoaster story of Christianity in Japan, early...
Pearl of Great PriceFeb 4, 20213 minFeb 4 - Mormons journey to Utah Today on Feb 4 we remember how the Church of the Latter Day Saints left their wintering grounds in search of a safe place to establish...
Pearl of Great PriceFeb 4, 20213 minFeb 3 - Guttenberg's Printing PressToday in 1468 Johannes Gutenberg combined various elements, of movable type, oil based ink and a mechanical system allowed the mass...
Pearl of Great PriceFeb 2, 20213 minFeb 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 PriceFeb 1, 20216 minFeb 1 - Translating the Bible Today we remember the life and work of Erasmus the Dutch priest and 'Prince amongst Humanists'. This is the day in 1516 he dedicated his...