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Sam Leanza Ortiz
Sam Leanza Ortiz

  1. Friday, November 29, 2024

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    11/29/24
    16 mins
    Sam Leanza Ortiz
    Today, on the Christian History Almanac, we remember Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, one of the most powerful churchmen in England, who died on this day in 1530.

  2. Thursday, November 28, 2024

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    11/28/24
    16 mins
    Sam Leanza Ortiz
    Today on the Christian History Almanac, we remember Kamehameha IV and Emma, King and Queen of Hawaii, on their feast day in the Episcopal Church of America.

  3. Wednesday, November 27, 2024

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    11/27/24
    13 mins
    Sam Leanza Ortiz
    Today on the Christian History Almanac, we remember Clovis I, the first Christian king of the Franks who died on this day in 511.

  4. Tuesday, November 26, 2024

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    11/26/24
    13 mins
    Sam Leanza Ortiz
    Today on the Christian History Almanac, we remember Henry Dunster, American minister and the first president of Harvard College, who was baptized on this day in 1609.

  5. Monday, November 25, 2024

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    11/25/24
    11 mins
    Sam Leanza Ortiz
    Today on the Christian History Almanac, we look at early modern Christianity in the Iberian Peninsula.

  6. Friday, June 30, 2023

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    06/30/23
    15 mins
    Sam Leanza Ortiz
    Today on the Almanac, we consider two events on the same day in 1688 which spelled the beginning of the end for Catholic monarchs in England.

  7. Thursday, June 29, 2023

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    06/29/23
    13 mins
    Sam Leanza Ortiz
    Today on the Almanac, we consider the Roman Catholic response to Mussolini in the papal encyclical published by Pope Pius XI on this day in 1931.

  8. Wednesday, June 28, 2023

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    06/28/23
    13 mins
    Sam Leanza Ortiz
    Today on the Almanac, we remember the election of Charles V to the title of Holy Roman Emperor in 1519.

  9. Tuesday, June 27, 2023

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    06/27/23
    13 mins
    Sam Leanza Ortiz
    Today on the Christian History Almanac, we remember the Stratford Martyrs who died on this day in 1556.

  10. Monday, June 26, 2023

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    06/26/23
    12 mins
    Sam Leanza Ortiz
    Today on the Almanac, we look to the early church and tell the story of Julian the Apostate, Rome’s last pagan emperor, who died on this day in 363.
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