The Pearl of Great Price
The Pearl of Great Price
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May 4 Dividing the New World between Spain and Portugal
Today Alexander VI, the infamous Borgia Pope, issued a papal bull which drew up a line of demarcation dividing the New World between Spain and Portugal
May 3 The Sign of the Beast
Today we look at the birth of Uriah Smith and Seventh Day Adventism. Emerging out of a failed prophecy of the End of the World we look at his writings about the Book of Revelation.
May 2 Fr Kircher, the Plague and Quarantine
The last polymath of the renaissance era was Fr Antanasius Kircher SJ. Among his many accomplishments he was the first to look at the blood of bubonic plague victims under a microscope and to realise that the 'pestis' was contagious. He suggest...
May 1 Death of David Livingstone
Perhaps the Westerner who did more to shape thinking about Africa then anyone else. Both a father of European Colonialism and a forerunner of African Nationalism. He died today and this is his story.
Apr 30 The Polish Mystic, Faustina and the Divine Mercy
The Polish Mystic Faustina Kowalska was declared a saint in the presence of 200,000 people today and the first Divine Mercy Sunday was celebrated worldwide. We look at her short but spiritually intense life. How the devotion to the ...
