Sep 17 Adrienne von Speyr
Today we remember the death of the Swiss doctor and mystic Adrienne von Speyr. Born and raised during the early twentieth century in a...
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Pearl of Great Price
- Sep 21, 2021
- 4 min
Sep 15 Dominic and the miraculous painting
Today in 1530 a supposed 'miraculous' portrait of Saint Dominic appeared in Calabria, in the South of Italy. The image has garnered...
Pearl of Great Price
- Aug 20, 2021
- 3 min
Aug 19 The Moabite Stone & the Exodus
Its 1868 and we are in Jordan where late in the afternoon during a coffee break, the sheikh of the Banî Hamîdi tribe informed the German...
Pearl of Great Price
- Aug 14, 2021
- 4 min
Aug 14 Maximillian Kolbe
Today in Poland, the Franciscan Maximilian Kolbe volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the German concentration camp at Auschwitz....
Pearl of Great Price
- Aug 12, 2021
- 3 min
Aug 12 Golden Roses & Aparecida
Today in 1967 Pope Paul VI granted a Golden rose to Aparecida Cathedral in Brazil. The Golden Rose is an ornament, which popes have...
Pearl of Great Price
- Aug 2, 2021
- 5 min
Aug 2 Edith Stein
Today in 1942 the Carmelite Nun Edith Stein was arrested in her convent in the Netherlands by the SS and taken to Auschwitz concentration...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 31, 2021
- 3 min
July 31 Tsarist Troops storm Mount Athos
Today in 1913, Russian troops stormed the St Panteleimon Monastery on Mount Athos and deported about 80 Russian monks, Six months earlier...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 27, 2021
- 5 min
July 26 Padre Pio
Today in 1919, Dr Amico Bignami conducted an investigation into the strange wounds that had appeared on the body of Francesco Forgione, a...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 14, 2021
- 4 min
July 14 St Marks Tower collapses in Venice
Today in 1902 the famous Campanile or Bell Tower in St Mark's Square, collapsed, demolishing the loggetta beneath it. No one was injured...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 4, 2021
- 4 min
July 4 Pulcheria and the Theotokos
Today in 432 a large crowd descended on the church in Constantinople cheering “Many years to Pulcheria! Many years to the empress!” They...
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 8, 2021
- 7 min
June 9 Terese of Liseux - The Story of a Soul
At the age of 14, on Christmas Eve in 1886, Therese had a conversion that transformed her life. From then on, her powerful energy and...
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
- May 20, 2021
- 3 min
May 21 Attacking the Pieta
Today in St Peters, Rome, a 33 year old man called Lazlo Toth, wielding a geologist's hammer shouted, "I am Jesus Christ — risen from the...
Pearl of Great Price
- May 10, 2021
- 5 min
May 10 Karl Barth, influential Protestant Theologian
Karl Barth the most influential Protestant theologian of the 20th century was born on May 10th 1886. A leader of the 'Confessing Church'...
Pearl of Great Price
- Feb 10, 2021
- 1 min
Feb 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 Price
- Feb 5, 2021
- 3 min
Feb 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 Price
- Feb 2, 2021
- 3 min
Feb 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 Price
- Jan 31, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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...
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