The Pearl of Great Price

History

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.

107 episodes

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1

Mar 22 Johnathan Edwards and the Great Awakening

9:24 Mar 21, 2026

2

Mar 21 Papier Mache Papal Tiara

8:57 Mar 20, 2026

3

Mar 20 Cuthbert & Lindisfarne

8:18 Mar 19, 2026

4

Mar 19 Taiping Rebellion & The Heavenly Kingdom

7:58 Mar 18, 2026

5

Mar 18 Charles Spurgeon and the Metropolitan Tabernacle

7:59 Mar 17, 2026

6

Mar 17 Mormon Relief Society

7:13 Mar 16, 2026

7

Mar 16 Founding of the Red Cross

8:04 Mar 15, 2026

8

Mar 15 Cardinal Manning and the Dock Strike

8:44 Mar 14, 2026

9

Mar 14 Dr Livingstone I presume

8:22 Mar 14, 2026

10

Feb 25 Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights

7:34 Mar 14, 2026

11

Feb 26 Sheldon and What Would Jesus Do?

7:02 Mar 14, 2026

12

Feb 27 Keir Hardy, Methodism and Labour

8:03 Mar 14, 2026

13

Feb 28 Victorian Slum Priest Charles Lowder

8:51 Mar 14, 2026

14

Mar 1 Bishop Oldhams' Anglo-Chinese schools

6:56 Mar 14, 2026

15

Mar 2 - The Death of John Wesley

8:10 Mar 14, 2026

16

Mar 3 - The First Concordance

7:07 Mar 14, 2026

17

Mar 4 - William Penn's holy experiment of Pennsylvania

9:27 Mar 14, 2026

18

Mar 5 Roger Williams first Baptist Church in USA

7:35 Mar 14, 2026

19

Mar 6 Michelangelo

15:05 Mar 14, 2026

20

Mar 7 A Revolutionary new Mass

8:30 Mar 14, 2026

21

Mar 8 Reagan's Evil Empire

7:43 Mar 14, 2026

22

Mar 9 In Sebaste, Roman Soldiers are Martyred

7:19 Mar 14, 2026

23

Mar 10 Rev. Martin Luther King

8:56 Mar 14, 2026

24

Mar 11 William Carey's Fire in Serampore, India

7:34 Mar 14, 2026

25

Mar 12 Bishop Berkeley, Yale and Idealism

8:27 Mar 14, 2026

26

Feb 24 Francis of Assisi

7:21 Feb 23, 2026

27

Feb 23 Handel's Messiah

7:17 Feb 22, 2026

28

Feb 20 Abolitionist & former slave Frederick Douglass

6:56 Feb 19, 2026

29

Feb 19 Nicolaus Copernicus

7:52 Feb 18, 2026

30

Feb 18 Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress

7:18 Feb 17, 2026

31

Feb 17 World Council of Churches

8:12 Feb 16, 2026

32

Feb 16 People Power in the Philippines

6:45 Feb 15, 2026

33

Feb 15 Charbel Makhlouf enters a hermitage

7:32 Feb 14, 2026

34

Feb 14 Saint Valentine

8:06 Feb 13, 2026

35

Feb 11 First Apparition in Lourdes

8:05 Feb 12, 2026

36

Feb 13 Glencoe Massacre

8:51 Feb 12, 2026

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Feb 10 Paul shipwrecked in Malta

6:31 Feb 10, 2026

38

Feb 9 Unexploded Bomb in Genoa Cathedral

6:54 Feb 9, 2026

39

Feb 6 Mexico's Cristero War

7:07 Feb 6, 2026

40

Feb 5 Japan's Hidden Christians

7:43 Feb 5, 2026

41

Feb 4 Mormons travel to Salt Lake Valley

6:25 Feb 4, 2026

42

Feb 3 Guttenberg and his printing press

6:24 Feb 3, 2026

43

Feb 2 Candlemas

7:27 Feb 2, 2026

44

Feb 1 Erasmus and the Bible

11:13 Jan 31, 2026

45

Jan 31 Maronite Church & Lebanese Nationalism

6:53 Jan 30, 2026

46

Jan 30 - Oliver Cromwell and two executions

7:06 Jan 29, 2026

47

Jan 29 - Martin Luther's Wife

6:25 Jan 28, 2026

48

Jan 28 - Excommunicating an Emperor

6:55 Jan 27, 2026

49

Jan 27 - Dante's Exile and his Divine Comedy

7:05 Jan 26, 2026

50

Jan 26 - India becomes a republic

6:22 Jan 25, 2026

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