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A decisive and democratic vote in  1991 returned the title of St Petersburg after it had been called Leningrad for 70 years. It was another clear indication that Christianity was more resilient than Communism.

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Fulton J Sheen was one of the first televangelists. A telegenic, gifted communicator, he had a very fruitful apostolate.  Was the victim of vicious inter-church politics but his cause for Sainthood is now open. 

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Hugely influential Theologian and Historian, training generations of leaders and teachers in Liberal Protestantism and the Theology of Culture.  One of his key  pupils Karl Barth would spectacularly fall out with him before the two world wars. 

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Terese Martin was a remarkable teenager - who at the age of 15 refused to leave the side of the Pope in a public audience as she wished to enter a Carmelite Convent.  Dying at the early age of 24, her spiritual memoirs of a hidden life have become a classic, translated into 35 languages and she has been declared a Saint and a Doctor of the Church

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The rich and varied life of John Donne, the greatest of the metaphysical poets in Elizabethan England.  Born into a persecuted Catholic family he ended up as the Dean of St Pauls. 

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Today in 1533 Thomas Cranmer was ordained Archbishop of Canterbury, historians mark this as the beginning of the Reformation in England.  We look at his opportunistic rise and his downfall

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Thomas Coram was shocked walking into 18th Century London at the amount of abandoned children he would come across in the streets.  This is the story of how he set up his famous foundling hospital - the first incorporated charity in Britain.

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They are a key part of the Christmas season in America.... but where did they come from?  How was their reputation established?  Did they popularise doughnuts? What are the challenges today 

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The German Dominican and Theologian Johannes Eckhart became very popular in the late 20th Century because of his Creation Spirituality. Today we look at his life and legacy.  Was he a mystic or just a medieval theologian?  Did his powerful preaching in fluence Luther? 

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One of the most popular Christian Apologists died recently and left multiple victims of abuse.  This caused great distress in the Evangelical Community.  Amidst all the book burning we look at his legacy and try to understand the tradition he came out of.