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 encounters Christ  and eventually is freed from slavery by winning a chariot race

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

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 is called the evening star of scholasticism and the morning star of the Reformation

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 has turned it back into a mosque

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

The Philocalus Calendar is the first time we have Christmas Day recorded as an annual feast 

Francis of Assisi is credited of inventing the Live Crib at  his hermitage at Greccio in Italy, this is the story of it 

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

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 

Dorothy Sayers wrote a cycle of radio plays about the life of Jesus Christ that has been repeated and reproduced on multiple occasions