The Pearl of Great Price

By Tim Byron

A short daily trip down the lane of Christian History. Looking at the fascinating people and events that have shaped a universal civilisation.... more

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September 13, 2026 Sep 14 Dom Perignon, Monks and Wine Making
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Now the most famous champagne is named in his honour, Pierre Perignon was a Benedictine Monk who perfected the method of making sparkling wine
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8min
September 11, 2026 Sep 12 Richard Challoner - leading in an hostile environment
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Bishop Richard Challoner has been called the most influential English Catholic of the 18th Century. It was an uneasy time before Catholic Emancipation laws and least safe in London. The Catholic Church was still illegal after Queen Elizabeth's Act of Uniformity and there were sporadic riots against Catholics. Challoners' life is a case study of successful leadership in a hostile environment
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14min
September 08, 2026 Sep 9 A Theology of Capital - Michael Novak
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Today we remember the life of Michael Novak - influential author of the Spirit of Democratic Capitalism. He tweaked Weber's famous Protestant Work Ethic and claimed that free capitalist economies owed more to a Catholic Work Ethic
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12min
September 07, 2026 Sep 8 Discovering Genes as an opportunity to worship
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Francis Collins the director of the Human Genome Project is a devout Christian. we explore his life today
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10min
September 06, 2026 Sep 7 Ethno-religious riots in Jos, Nigeria
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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 South and the Muslim North
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8min
September 05, 2026 Sep 6 Blaise Pascale, Salvation & Jansenism and The Index of Prohibited Books
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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 inventor of the syringe and a promoter of an exaggerated theology called Jansenism
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14min
September 04, 2026 Sep 5 Cardinal Josef Beran - opposition to totalitarianism in Czechoslovakia
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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 after the iron curtain fell was placed under 16 years house arrest by the Communists. He was only allowed to leave the then Czechoslovakia to go to Rome to be made a cardinal - on the condition he didn't return. He died in exile
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9min
September 03, 2026 Sep 4 The Murder of a Croatian Abbot and Iconographer
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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 were a Nazi puppet government
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11min
September 02, 2026 Sep 3 The Heliand - An Old Norse Life of Christ
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The discovery and publication of the Heliand started to explain a historical mystery. How were the warrior Germanic Cultures subsumed into Christendom? This life of Christ in Old Norse is now an invaluable epic poem in a forgotten language
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10min
September 01, 2026 Sep 2 An American Ascetic Orthodox Monk - Seraphim Rose
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The translations and summaries of Orthodox wisdom from Fr Seraphim Rose became valued as illegal Samizdat, material banned and shared in a clandestine manner under Communism. We look at the life and conversion of this monk who died at a young age after live a harsh asceticism
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12min

FAQs about The Pearl of Great Price:

How many episodes does The Pearl of Great Price have?

The podcast currently has 384 episodes available.