The Pearl of Great Price
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May 19 Alcuin of York - Capital letters and miniscule script
The greatest mind of the 8th Century - changed how we read letters, and saved a lot of knowledge from Viking Destruction. Alcuin of York - a one man renaissance was the sun who shone over Europe
May 18 The Original Megachurch - Drama and Kidnapping
Today we remember the disappearance of Aimee McPherson a remarkable and pioneering evangelist. And how she reappeared 5 weeks later in the Mexican Desert ... what happened?
May 17 Mapping the Mississippi with Marquette
The Jesuit explorer Jacques Marquette and the Canadian Fur Trapper Louis Joillet were the first to explore and map the Mississipi - they embarked today and this is their story
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May 16 Brendan the Navigator
Did a Celtic Monk called Brendan cross the Atlantic 1000 years before Columbus?
May 15 Rerum Novarum, the Pope and Revolution
Rerum Novarum was described as ground breaking - the foundational encyclical on Catholic Social Teaching. The only encyclical to spawn to follow up encyclicals as the Church tries to tread a middle line between Capitalism and Socialism
