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May 23 Sam Sharpe and Jamaica's Baptist Rebellion
Season 5 Episode 23
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Today Sam Sharpe was executed for inciting a Slave Rebellion, he is now a national hero in Jamaica. A slave himself and a Baptist Deacon, this is his story
Published on 7 months, 1 week ago
May 22 The Trevi Fountain, Popes and Rome
Season 5 Episode 22
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Today we remember how Popes commissioned and Blessed the redesigned Trevi Fountain. The City of Rome has closely been linked to the rise and fall of the Papacy.
Published on 7 months, 1 week ago
May 21 Attacking the Pieta
Season 5 Episode 21
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Michelangelo's Pieta is one of the greatest sculptures of all time, and today it was attacked by a Hungarian Geologist and seriously damaged.
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May 20 'We Believe....." The Council of Nicea
Season 5 Episode 20
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The first ecumenical (Global ) Church Council and the Creed that came from it
Published on 7 months, 1 week ago
May 19 Alcuin of York - Capital letters and miniscule script
Season 5 Episode 19
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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 ov…
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May 18 The Original Megachurch - Drama and Kidnapping
Season 5 Episode 18
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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?
Published on 7 months, 1 week ago
May 17 Mapping the Mississippi with Marquette
Season 5 Episode 17
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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
Published on 7 months, 1 week ago
May 16 Brendan the Navigator
Season 5 Episode 16
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Did a Celtic Monk called Brendan cross the Atlantic 1000 years before Columbus?
Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago
May 15 Rerum Novarum, the Pope and Revolution
Season 5 Episode 15
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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 tr…
Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago
May 14 Salem Witch Trials
Season 5 Episode 14
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The infamous Salem Witch trials are now understood to be a bout of Puritan Mass Hysteria - and some historians argue lead to the end of experimental theocracies in the USA
Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago