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Feb 7 The Bonfire of the Vanities
Season 2 Episode 6
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Today we remember the apocalyptical and puritanical Savanarola and his Bonfire of the Vanities that was lit today in Florence in 1497
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Sep 7 Ethno-religious riots in Jos, Nigeria
Season 9 Episode 7
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Jos - the capital of the Plateau state in Nigeria's Central Belt is also a flashpoint for tension and violence between the Christian …
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Sep 6 Blaise Pascale, Salvation & Jansenism and The Index of Prohibited Books
Season 9 Episode 6
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Today we remember how the Vatican placed the Pascals Provincial Letters on the Index. He was a brilliant French polymath, the invento…
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Sep 5 Cardinal Josef Beran - opposition to totalitarianism in Czechoslovakia
Season 9 Episode 5
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Archbishop Josef Beran of Prague defied both the Nazis and the Communists. He nearly died of typhus in Dachau concentration camp and …
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Sep 4 The Murder of a Croatian Abbot and Iconographer
Season 9 Episode 4
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Rafailo Momčilović was a celebrated Orthodox painter (writer) of Icons. He was murdered by the fascist Ustase in Croatia whilst they…
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Sep 3 The Heliand - An Old Norse Life of Christ
Season 9 Episode 3
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The discovery and publication of the Heliand started to explain a historical mystery. How were the warrior Germanic Cultures subsume…
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Sep 2 An American Ascetic Orthodox Monk - Seraphim Rose
Season 9 Episode 2
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The translations and summaries of Orthodox wisdom from Fr Seraphim Rose became valued as illegal Samizdat, material banned and shared…
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Sep 1 Fr Dowling's Spiritual Exercises and Alcoholics Anonymous
Season 9 Episode 1
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The Friendship between Jesuit Priest Ed Dowling and the founder of the AA Bill Wilson was deep and rich, We look at how Dowling beca…
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Aug 31 Grunewald and the Isenheim Altarpiece
Season 8 Episode 31
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Matthias Grunewald masterpiece was commissioned by the Antonite Monks at Isenheim. His depiction of an excruciating crucifixion is n…
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Aug 30 Liverpool, Everton and the Rev Ben Chambers
Season 8 Episode 30
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When Ben Chambers became the Methodist Minister at St Domingo's chapel he started the 'Band of Hope' putting on activities to distrac…
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