Aug 13 James Joyce, Faith and Ulysees
We travel to 1903 Dublin , Ireland were the Irish novelist and poet, James Joyce returned to Ireland from studies in Paris when his...
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Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 30, 2021
- 3 min
July 30 Johann Sebastian Bach
Today in 1750 the body of Johan Sebastian Bach was laid to rest in an unmarked grave at the churchyard of St. John’s, Leipzig. The...
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 14, 2021
- 5 min
July 15 - Nanette, the velvet brick and mother of slaves
We remember an extraordinary French woman Anne-Marie Javouhey, often known as Nanette. who died today at the age of 72. One of her last...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 10, 2021
- 3 min
July 10 Cardinal Richelieu and the French Academy
Its 1637 and we are in Paris where at Cardinal Richelieu's urging, King Louis XIII granted letters patent formally establishing a council...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 30, 2021
- 3 min
July 1 The Boxer Uprising leads the first martyr from Yale
American missionary Horace Tracy Pitkin was beheaded when a mob burst into his Mission compound as part of the Boxer Uprising. This was...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 21, 2021
- 3 min
June 19 Acton - Power Corrupts, Absolute Power corrupts absolutely
Today in 1902 Lord Acton died. John Acton was the English Catholic historian, died in Bavaria, Germany. Now famous for his saying...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 12, 2021
- 3 min
June 13 The Doctor who discovered the causes of Downs Syndrome and then became their defender
Jérôme Jean Louis Marie Lejeune was born today in 1926. He would become a medical doctor and was a pioneering researcher all his life. ...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 9, 2021
- 6 min
June 10 Von Harnack, Theology of Culture and the Jesus of History
Today we remember the death of Carl Gustav Adolf von Harnack , an influential German theologian and historian; who had a huge impact on...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 7, 2021
- 4 min
June 8 Gustavo Gutierrez and Liberation Theology
Gustavo Gutierrez, the Peruvian Dominican priest is seen by many as the father of Latin American Liberation Theology. We look at his...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 6, 2021
- 8 min
June 7 Antoni Gaudi and the Sagrada Familia
The great basilica of the Sagrada Familia is linked to one man, the genius, mystic and ascetic Antoni Gaudi. We look at the remarkable...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 5, 2021
- 3 min
June 6 John Polkinghorne - Science & Religion
Today we remember how in 1982 and travel to where the theoretical physicist John Polkinghorne was ordained an Anglican priest in...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 4, 2021
- 3 min
June 4 Silencing Prayer in Schools
A landmark case that started in 1982 found that it was not allowed to have a minutes silence in Alabama Schools. Bitterly fought it went...
Pearl of Great Price
- May 31, 2021
- 4 min
June 1 The Dead Sea Scrolls
A Bedouin shepherd throwing a stone into a cave on the shore of the Dead Sea was puzzled by the cracking sound within. Investigating he...
Pearl of Great Price
- May 28, 2021
- 4 min
May 29 G.K.Chesterton's quest for orthodoxy
One of the greatest writers in the English language at the beginning of the 20th Century. On an intense spiritual journey that took him...
Pearl of Great Price
- May 27, 2021
- 3 min
May 28 William Cogate and Tithing
Today we go back to year 1795 and travel to Baltimore where, a young William Colgate arrived in the US and settled in Harford County,...
Pearl of Great Price
- May 25, 2021
- 4 min
May 26 Barnardo's
Today in Dublin in 1826, a teenager with a big heart an a desire to do something important called Thomas Bernardo experienced an...
Pearl of Great Price
- May 18, 2021
- 3 min
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...
Pearl of Great Price
- May 4, 2021
- 3 min
May 5 Teaching Evolution and the Scopes Trial
Today we look at infamous Scopes Monkey Trial in Tennessee in 1925 and the attempt to overthrow the Butler Act which prohibited teaching...
Pearl of Great Price
- May 1, 2021
- 3 min
May 2 The Polymath Priest who studied the Plague
The last polymath of the renaissance era was Fr Antanasius Kircher SJ. A giant among seventeenth-century scholars and at the dawn of the...
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