15 year old computer geek Carlo Acutis died of Luekemia in 2005 - he was beatified in 2020. Thousands of people visit his shrine in Assisi every day. Could he become the first millenial saint? 

The man who ushered anatomy into the renaissance age after stagnating with 1300 years of Galen was Fr Gabrielle Fallopio.  He gave his name to the Fallopian tube,

Chiune Sugihara was a Japanese diplomat stationed in Lithuania during the war, He had converted to Christianity for his first marriage - joining the Orthodox Church. He saved thousands of Jews by issuing them visas and this was only discovered ...

Gallup claimed that she was by far the most admired person of the century after polling, and she won numerous prizes including the Nobel Peace Prize. She attracted thousands of young people to help her - but she also attracted some fierce, and ...

Today we remember the death of Poet Laurete Alfred Lord Tennyson. HIs poem In Memoriam helped Queen Victoria as she dealt with the grief of the death of Prince Albert. We look at it how it deals with faith and doubt 

Today after a terrible persecution with an assassinated Anglican archbishop and multiple murders of Catholics and Anglicans - Uganda installed a Christian government.  The Ugandan martyrs are now celebrated every year by millions in a nati...

Rembrandt left over 500 paintings after he died, more than a third of them of the Bible. He lived in a time of great religious turmoil and didn't belong to any church - but fell in love with and studied the Bible. His life was like his painting...

The Zionist churches in Southern Africa account for 15 million Christians - the biggest group.  This is the story of the Scottish/Australian preacher who founded them in America before sending out missionaries 

He did not submit to either the Nazis or the Communists in his beloved Hungary. For which he was imprisoned and tortured. He would die in exile in Vienna 

The German priest, teacher and writer Romano Guardini has had a decisive influence on the last two popes. His book The Lord is a masterpiece in Christology and has been called a book with a great mission 

George Tyrell, an Irish priest published two letters in the Times criticising the papal encyclical Pascendi, he was expelled from the Jesuits and excommunicated 

The first Pope to be given the title great was Leo.  We tell the story why today 

The Obelisk outside St Peters in Rome stood in Nero's Circus and witnessed the crucifixion of St Peter. This is the story of how it was moved there and what happened to Peter

She was a great mystic, practical and effective reformer and one of the most influential authors of the spiritual life. St Teresa of Avila, founder of the Discalced Carmelites. Author of the Interior Castle and Way to Perfection 

The Civil War had started months earlier because of the right to own slaves and Lincolns election. Today he called for a day of humiliation, fasting and prayer to bring an end to the strife. The war would last another 4 years

When Otto published the idea of the Holy during World War One it was a sensation, soon translated into multiple languages.  He coined the term numinous to describe the experience of the Other.  Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinans

A key moment in English History - the first synod of Bishops which stabilised the church with its diocesan boundaries, unified England and clarified marital practice.  We have records because of the first Historian of Christian Europe, a B...

Aleksey Stepanovich Khomyakov was a Russian theologian, philosopher, poet and amateur artist. He co-founded the Slavophile movement and created a Theology around 'sobornost' or community

Today in 2000 we remember how  a quarter of a million Christians clogged the streets, to pay their final respects to the evangelist Bakht Singh who was being buried in Hyderabad, India.  It was one of the largest funerals in the ...

There is growing appreciation of the impact of the non conformist minister. Thomas Byre lifes work.  His theorem which was posthumously published has now created a whole school in the field of Statistics

The Korean peninsula is a grassroots church - as it grew without any direct clerical influence for many years.  A diplomat brought back the books of the Italian Jesuit Missionary from Beijing, which explained how Christianity was complemen...

George Herbert - a gifted orator at Cambridge University and then the court of James I. left all that behind to be ordained in the Church of England and work in a rural parish. He poetry published posthumously became very popular in a divided a...

Hugely influential in the life of many British writers - particularly C S Lewis, but also across the pond with Mark Twain. Born a Calvinist, died an Anglican, this Scottish minister and writer left a profound legacy 

The first female doctor in Switzerland - she would convert to Catholicism and set up the community of St John with Hans Urs von Balthazar

Gilles de Rai was one of the earliest serial killers on record, today he was arrested in 1440 after an investigation by the Bishop of Nantes