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Send us Fan Mail 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 

Send us Fan Mail One of the most consequential documents of Vatican 2 is also one of the shortest - Dei Verbum which deals with Divine Revelation 

Send us Fan Mail The Coventry Blitz on Nov 14 1940 was the most devestating in Britain during WW2. Its bombed out cathedral is now world famous

Send us Fan Mail King Canute the King of Denmark, Norway and England built up an Empire of the North Sea. He also put a lot of money back into rebuilding churches and monasteries. Why did he attempt to turn back the sea? 

Send us Fan Mail The Marine Biologist - Sir Alister Hardy - set up a centre to study religious experience. He claimed that 50% of people in the UK had a religious experience and saw this as an evolutionary response to some dimension of reality

Send us Fan Mail Today we remember how the General Synod voted to accept women priests in 1992.

Send us Fan Mail The Council of Trent is most famous for its counter reformation decrees - but perhaps of most significance in shaping civilisations is its decree 'Tametsi' which tried to counteract clandestine marriage

Send us Fan Mail We remember the death of William Morfill, the first professor of Russian and Slavonic languages in Britain, He translated the non-canonical Book of Enoch which had been preserved in Bulgarian  texts and describes how Satan was cast out of heaven

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Send us Fan Mail The Sagrada Familia was Anthony Gaudi's magnus opus and attracts more than 3 million visitors every year to  Barcelona.  Today we remember how Pope Benedict consecrated the unfinished basilica - and opened it to the public to worship - which was Gaudi;s intention and dream 

Send us Fan Mail George Williams inspired by the ideals of Muscular Christianity founded the YMCA to offer young men an alternative and healthy life to the urban malaise he saw in London, The movement spread around the world and invented basketball and volleyball as part of its  legacy  

Send us Fan Mail Guy Fawkes was from York and to commemorate his failure to blow up the House of Lords a special light show was projected onto the beautiful and famous York Minster. Today we look at both the story of Guy Fawkes and the beautiful York Cathedral and its links to the Emperor Constantine 

Send us Fan Mail The Lord of the Rings has been hugely successful as a book and a film series,  all over the world, We look at the theology that underpins J R R Tolkien's Middle- Earth that has been popular all over the world 

Send us Fan Mail Coventry Cathedral was rebuilt after being bombed in WW2, with its shell left standing next to the new cathedral a symbol of Resurrection and Reconciliation.  It commissioned a War Requiem from Benjamin Britten which incorporated Wilfred Owen's poetry with a Latin Requiem Mass Setting

Send us Fan Mail One of the most intriguing works of Christology is the Theology of Failure by John Navone. An edition was published today in 1974 and it has had a lasting influence on Pope Francis

Send us Fan Mail After four years work - the Sistine Chapel was opened for public viewing  on all Saints Day.  Michelangelo's Ceilings is now seen as one of the greatest artistic achievements of all time - with more than three hundred figures. it shows the creation, Adam and Eve  in the G arden of Eden, and the G reat Flood - the first chapters of the book of Genesis .

Send us Fan Mail The understanding of justification by faith alone was the theological faultline at the heart of the reformation. Today almost 5oo years later a joint statement was released in agreement between Lutherans and Catholics 

Send us Fan Mail The Slave Nat Turner believed that he was divinely inspired to lead an uprising of slaves in Virginia. He would be killed for his efforts 

Send us Fan Mail Today we look at the story of St Regulus being shipwrecked in Scotland with relics of St Andrew. How he became the national saint and the story behind his saltire 

Send us Fan Mail John XXIII was born into a simple farming family and was proud of his humble beginnings.  He Was mourned after his death as 'Il Papa Buono' and mas made Time Magazine Man of the year after his intervention in the Cuban Missile Crisis 

Send us Fan Mail Constantine was the first Roman Emperor to be baptised a Christian, This was an incredible turnaround after many  terrible persecutions of the Roman authorities, killing tens of thousands of  Christians. We look at the spiritual experience that may explain this and the influence of his mother St Helena and her quest to find the true cross

Send us Fan Mail When Alfred defeated Guthrum at the Battle of Eddington and then proceeded to be his mentor and oversee his baptism - England was at a turning point. From Being the embattled King Of Wessex he oversaw the beginning of the  unification of England and the assimilation of many Danes

Send us Fan Mail Geoffrey Chaucer's stories of pilgrims on their way to the shrine of St Thomas a Becket have lead to him being called the father of English Literature, We look at his life, his writing and his ambiguous relationship with the church 

Send us Fan Mail A series of churches and cathedrals have stood in Chartres since the 4th Century. A testament to resilience and perseverance, the current one dating back nearly eight hundred years is a UNESCO world heritage site. Its stained glass are some of the most famous in the world and its labyrinth still attracts many pilgrims. 

Send us Fan Mail Chang Kei Shek was the longest leader of China in the 20th Century - although his later years he spent in Taiwan - escaping from the Communists.  Today we remember his baptism due to his mother-in-law