The Pearl of Great Price
The Pearl of Great Price
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Sep 6 Blaise Pascale, Salvation & Jansenism and The Index of Prohibited Books
Today we remember how the Vatican placed the Pascals Provincial Letters on the Index. He was a brilliant French polymath, the inventor of the syringe and a promoter of an exaggerated theology called Jansenism
Sep 5 Cardinal Josef Beran - opposition to totalitarianism in Czechoslovakia
Archbishop Josef Beran of Prague defied both the Nazis and the Communists. He nearly died of typhus in Dachau concentration camp and after the iron curtain fell was placed under 16 years house arrest by the Communists. He was only allowed to le...
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Sep 4 The Murder of a Croatian Abbot and Iconographer
Rafailo Momčilović was a celebrated Orthodox painter (writer) of Icons. He was murdered by the fascist Ustase in Croatia whilst they were a Nazi puppet government
Sep 3 The Heliand - An Old Norse Life of Christ
The discovery and publication of the Heliand started to explain a historical mystery. How were the warrior Germanic Cultures subsumed into Christendom? This life of Christ in Old Norse is now an invaluable epic poem in a forgotten languag...
Sep 2 An American Ascetic Orthodox Monk - Seraphim Rose
The translations and summaries of Orthodox wisdom from Fr Seraphim Rose became valued as illegal Samizdat, material banned and shared in a clandestine manner under Communism. We look at the life and conversion of this monk who died at a young a...
