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 PriceAug 2, 20213 minAug 1 The Vikings, Bluetooth and Ethewold Ethelwold of Winchester died today. After the spiritual damage left by Danish invasions, caused by relentless raids on monasteries,...
Pearl of Great PriceJul 22, 20215 minJuly 22 Mary MagdaleneToday in 2016 Pope Francis passed a decree declaring a major feast day in honour of Mary Magdalene to be celebrated annually on July...
Pearl of Great PriceJun 29, 20213 minJune 30 Mother Noella - World Expert in Cheese MakingToday 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 PriceMay 18, 20213 minMay 19 Alcuin of York, innovator of the Capital LetterAlcuin was one of the greatest minds of the Eight Century. Spearheading the educational reform of the Court of Charlemagne, he advanced...
Pearl of Great PriceMar 23, 20214 minMar 24 Papal Inderdicts and Magna Carta Today in 1208 Pope Innocent III placed an interdict on the whole of England prohibiting clergy from conducting religious services. It...
Pearl of Great PriceMar 21, 20214 minMar 21 - Papier Mache Papal TiaraToday in an extra-ordinary ceremony Pius VII was crowned Pope in a Benedictine Monastery with a temporary papal tiara made of...
Pearl of Great PriceMar 8, 20213 minMar 7 The New Rite Today, Pope Paul VI celebrated the first Mass in Italian (rather than Latin) , facing the people, at the church of All Saints in the Via...
Pearl of Great PriceJan 31, 20213 minJan 29 - Martin Luther's WifeToday in 1552 Katharina von Bora was born, she became known as the ‘Lutheress’ because at the age of 26 she was to marry the reformer...
Pearl of Great PriceJan 31, 20213 minJan 28 - Excommunicating an EmperorToday we remember in 1077 the famous midwinter penitential Walk to Canossa by King Henry IV, the Holy Roman Emperor. Henry petitioned...