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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...

Aug 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,...

July 22 Mary Magdalene

Today in 2016 Pope Francis passed a decree declaring a major feast day in honour of Mary Magdalene to be celebrated annually on July...

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...

May 19 Alcuin of York, innovator of the Capital Letter

Alcuin was one of the greatest minds of the Eight Century. Spearheading the educational reform of the Court of Charlemagne, he advanced...

Mar 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...

Mar 21 - Papier Mache Papal Tiara

Today in an extra-ordinary ceremony Pius VII was crowned Pope in a Benedictine Monastery with a temporary papal tiara made of...

Mar 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...

Jan 29 - Martin Luther's Wife

Today 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...

Jan 28 - Excommunicating an Emperor

Today we remember in 1077 the famous midwinter penitential Walk to Canossa by King Henry IV, the Holy Roman Emperor. Henry petitioned...

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