John Wesley went from spiritual despair to renewal after experiencing a strange warming of the heart in Aldersgate London 

Today Sam Sharpe was executed for inciting a Slave Rebellion, he is now a national hero in Jamaica.  A slave himself and a Baptist Deacon, this is his story

Today we remember how Popes commissioned and Blessed the redesigned Trevi Fountain.  The City of Rome has closely been linked to the rise and fall of the Papacy. 

Michelangelo's Pieta is one of the greatest sculptures of all time, and today it was attacked by a Hungarian Geologist and seriously damaged. 

The first ecumenical (Global ) Church Council and the Creed that came from it 

The greatest mind of the 8th Century - changed how we read letters, and saved a lot of knowledge from Viking Destruction. Alcuin of York - a one man renaissance was the sun who shone over Europe 

Today we remember the disappearance of Aimee McPherson a remarkable and pioneering evangelist. And how she reappeared 5 weeks later in the Mexican Desert ... what happened? 

The Jesuit explorer Jacques Marquette and the Canadian Fur Trapper Louis Joillet were the first to explore and map the Mississipi - they embarked today and this is their story 

Did a Celtic Monk called Brendan cross the Atlantic 1000 years before Columbus? 

Rerum Novarum was described as ground breaking - the foundational encyclical on Catholic Social Teaching. The only encyclical to spawn to follow up encyclicals as the Church tries to tread a middle line between Capitalism and Socialism