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Dec 30 Ben Hur
Season 12 Episode 30
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The ground breaking film Ben Hur was based on the novel that was voted the most influential Christian Book of the 19th Century. It tells the fictional story of a Jewish prisoner, who e…
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Dec 29 Thomas Becket
Season 12 Episode 29
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Thomas Beckets murder in Canterbury Cathedral made him one of the most popular saints of the medieval period and Canterbury became a pilgrimage destination for many from around Europe
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Dec 28 John Wycliffe and the Lollards
Season 12 Episode 28
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John Wycliffe was a reforming priest from the 14th Century. However he grew more critical and distant from the Pope and Church and inspired a group called the Lollards. Sometimes he i…
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Dec 27 Hagia Sophia - The Holy Wisdom
Season 12 Episode 27
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The building that has become iconic in Istanbul, today was consecrated as a church 'The Holy Wisdom', Under the Ottomans it became a mosque, Attaturk turned into a museum and Erdogan h…
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Dec 26 Nuns on a hospital ship
Season 12 Episode 26
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The first nurses on a US Navy hospital ship where 3 sisters from the Order of the Holy Cross - this is their story during the US Civil war
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Dec 25 First record of Christmas as a holiday
Season 12 Episode 25
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The Philocalus Calendar is the first time we have Christmas Day recorded as an annual feast
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Dec 24 The First Christmas Crib at Greccio
Season 12 Episode 24
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Francis of Assisi is credited of inventing the Live Crib at his hermitage at Greccio in Italy, this is the story of it
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Dec 23 The Columbus of the Catacombs
Season 12 Episode 23
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Antonio Bosio was a remarkable man who discovered many of the catacombs in Rome. He often risked his life exploring them, risking getting lost for ever
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Dec 22 The Father and Son who were Popes
Season 12 Episode 22
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Today we look at the papacy of Saint Innocent I who according to St Jerome was the son of the previous pope, which was not a cause for scandal
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Dec 21 The Wartime radio drama - The man born to be King
Season 12 Episode 21
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Dorothy Sayers wrote a cycle of radio plays about the life of Jesus Christ that has been repeated and reproduced on multiple occasions
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