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...
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Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 2, 2021
- 3 min
July 3 Prester John and Marco Polo
For more than 500 years, Europeans believed a Christian king ruled over a vast empire somewhere in the wilds of Africa, India or the Far...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 28, 2021
- 4 min
June 29 Poet of the Spirit - Elizabeth Barret Browning
Today we travel to Florence in Italy where the English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning died. Married to another poet – Robert Browning,...
Pearl of Great Price
- May 21, 2021
- 3 min
May 22 Papal Rome and the Trevi Fountain
Today the famous Trevi Fountain was finished by Pannini, and was officially opened and inaugurated on this day by Pope Clement XIII. We...
Pearl of Great Price
- May 4, 2021
- 3 min
May 4 Dividing the 'New World'
Today we remember how in 1493 Pope Alexander VI, in an age of exploration divided the 'New World' between Spain and Portugal. Giving the...
Pearl of Great Price
- Mar 6, 2021
- 6 min
Mar 6 Michelangelo
Michelangelo was born today, in 1474. His achievements as a sculptor, painter, architect and poet mean that he is often considered to be...
Pearl of Great Price
- Feb 15, 2021
- 1 min
Feb 16 - Carnival, Mardi Gras and Pancake Tuesday
Today Christians around the world are preparing to enter Lent with one last blowout. Today we look at the traditions that mark this...
Pearl of Great Price
- Feb 6, 2021
- 1 min
Feb 7 The Bonfire of the Vanities
In 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 Price
- Jan 31, 2021
- 4 min
Jan 27 - Dante exiled from Florence
Today in 1302, we remember how the Italian poet Dante Alighieri was exiled from Florence. In exile Date wrote the celebrated work The...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jan 29, 2021
- 2 min
Jan 16 - The Medici become the Pope's Bankers
Today in 1412 the Medici family agreed to become the official bankers of the papacy, which turbocharged their businesses across Europe. ...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jan 25, 2021
- 3 min
Jan 7 - Galileo starts a revolution
Today in 1610 the Italian Astronomer Galileo made his first observation of the four largest satellites of Jupiter, which are now named...
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