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The incredible story of John Kitto - who although he became deaf after an accident as a teenager, he became an avid traveller and observer of Eastern Culture. He used what he had experienced and observed to created very popular Biblical Encyclopaedias 

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Pope Pius IX had to flee from Rome to escape Garibaldi and the Nationalists. He returned to become a prisoner of the Vatican and called Vatican I - the council that controversially defined infallibility

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One of the greatest composers of sacred music in English was Thomas Tallis.  His greatest work composed when he was  seventy years old is the 40 voice 'Spem in Alium'. A tapestry of voices about putting hope in God 

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The Templars are one of the most controversial orders in the history of the Church. Set up in poverty to protect pilgrims to the Holy Land their power and fortunes rose and fell with the success of the Crusades 

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Lumen Gentium was one of the most important documents of Vatican 2.  The Churches understanding of itself... the first time ever written, dealing with such themes as the universal call to holiness and salvation outside the church

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Terese of Liseux is one of the most popular saints in the church - even though she died relatively unknown at 24.  Her 'Little Way' to Holiness was made famous through her autobiography  The Story of a Soul. Her modesty and 'littleness' belies a spiritual powerhouse,  at 14 she defied protocol and held onto the Pope's legs at an audience. We also look at the curious story of her relationship with Pope Francis and the gifts she sends him. 

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Alberto Methol Ferrer is one of the most influential thinkers you have never heard of.  He was a great friend of the current pope, and used to cross the Rio Grande from Uruguay to see him regularly in Buenos Aires. His thoughts on theology, renewal and atheism are looked at in todays podcast 

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St Peters Basilica is world famous and today it was consecrated in 1626

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Two remarkable stones tell us a lot of the beginning of Denmark as a nation state, brought together by Harald Bluetooth - the first Christian King.  He united the feuding tribes which is why Bluetooth technology was named after him, uniting digital devices. 

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The Bishop of Lincoln, a French aristocrat called Hugh was much loved for standing up to corrupt kings, and for his holiness. He was declared a saint twenty years after his death