Sep 29 Pope Leo the great and Atilla the Hun
Today Leo was consecrated bishop of Rome becoming the pope. His papacy was very significant, famous for his meeting with Attila the Hun...
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Pearl of Great Price
- Oct 12, 2021
- 5 min
Sep 28 The Obelisk that 'witnessed' St Peters Death
We go back to year 1586 and travel to Rome where a large pink granite obelisk known as "The Witness", was moved to its present location...
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 11, 2021
- 6 min
Aug 10 Salvation Outside the Church
On August 10 1863 Pope Pius IX issued an encyclical Quanto conficiamur in which he expressed the possibility that non-Catholics and...
Pearl of Great Price
- Aug 6, 2021
- 3 min
Aug 6 Conclave
Today in 1494. the first conclave to be held in the Sistine Chapel opened. Concerns about political interference in the election of a...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 19, 2021
- 4 min
July 19 Great Fire of Rome and the death of Peter & Paul
On the 17th of July in the year 63 a Great Fire broke among the shops lining the Circus Maximus, Rome’s chariot stadium. It seemed as...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 12, 2021
- 4 min
July 12 The Fall of Jerusalem and Destroying the Temple
Today we remember how in AD 70 the armies of the Roman Emperor Titus attacked the walls of Jerusalem after a six-month siege, starting...
Pearl of Great Price
- May 24, 2021
- 6 min
May 25 The Ecumenical Imperative
it’s the 25th of May and on this day in Christian History we go back to year 1995 and travel to Rome where Ut Unum Sint, the first...
Pearl of Great Price
- Apr 17, 2021
- 6 min
Apr 18 St Peters Basilica, the biggest church in the world
Today we remember how the cornerstone was laid for St Peters Basilica on the Vatican Hill outside of Rome. We look at the Egyptian...
Pearl of Great Price
- Apr 9, 2021
- 4 min
Apr 9 Encyclicals
Today in 475 the Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus releases an Enkyklikon, a circular letter to the bishops of his empire about the...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jan 31, 2021
- 3 min
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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