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July 2 St Swithun and St Swithin's Day
Season 7 Episode 2
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A popular superstition linking this Anglo Saxon Bishop and the weather has proved remarkably resilient. We investigate it in todays p…
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July 1 The Boxer Rebellion and the first martyr from Yale
Season 7 Episode 1
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An outpouring of anti-foreign and anti-Christian violence in China lead to the beheading of Horace Tracy Pitkin. He would become know…
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June 30 Mother Noella - The Cheese Nun
Season 6 Episode 30
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One of the worlds experts on Cheese is a Benedictine Nun who has a PHD in microbiology
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June 29 Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Poet of the Spirit
Season 6 Episode 29
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A Victorian Poet who was outstanding for her poetry - love sonnets, religious poem and feminist poetry. She died today after eloping…
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June 28 Monsignor Benson's the Lord of the World - the father of Dystopian Science Fiction
Season 6 Episode 28
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Lord of the World is a 1907 dystopian science fiction novel by Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson that centres upon the reign of the Antich…
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June 27 Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World - Girard
Season 6 Episode 27
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One of the most innovative thinkers of the 20th century was the polymath Rene Girard. His theory about mimetic desire, mimetic rivalr…
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June 26 Beauty, Goodness, Truth - Von Balthazar
Season 6 Episode 26
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One of the greatest theologians of the 20th Century, Hans Urs Von Balthazar. We look at his monumental 15 volume work and his relati…
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June 25 The Secret Encyclical against the Nazis
Season 6 Episode 25
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John Lafarge, an American Jesuit, stood behind Martin Luther King at the famous 'I have a dream speech'. He also was directly and s…
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June 24 Billy Grahams Last Crusade
Season 6 Episode 24
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Said to have preached the Gospel before more people that anyone in history, We look at the life of Billy Graham as we remember his la…
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June 23 Walter Ciszek, with God in Russia
Season 6 Episode 23
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The story of a Polish/American Jesuit who endured 5 years in Moscow's notorious Lubyanka prison and then 15 years in the Siberian Gul…
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