Fisher and More

Join our popular Latin Lover in an effort to mark the day the Church this past week, precisely on June 22nd, celebrated the Feast Day of Saints John Fisher and Thomas More. (repeat of 4/29/06)

Abandoning Pius II for Jules Verne

Did you know that in 1867 Jules Verne travelled to Rome and was received in audience by Pius IX and that in 2005 the Vatican once mentioned this famous Frenchman in a letter? But could this author have written in Latin?

Pugilatus certamen

In this entertaining programme our popular "Latin Lover" recounts how many years ago he took part in two Latin contests, one within Vatican walls and the other without.

Bede: what kind of Latinist?

Our popular 'Latin Lover' shares with us his linguistic expertise. (repeat of 1/12/08)

Victimae Paschali Laudes

Join our popular 'Latin Lover' as he bursts into a hymn maybe a thousand years old and puts Easter into the picture. (repeat of 4/6/07)

Ad recessum ire

Spiritual exercises in the Vatican began in 1929, the year of the Lateran Pacts. Our popular 'Latin Lover' speaks to us about the Latin of the Apostolic Constitution: 'Summorum Pontificum' in which Saint Ignatius was proclaimed Patron of Spiritual Exercises. Father Foster claims his students would go crazy over the beginning of a document like this.

Arch of Constantine

Learn all about this Archway with our popular "Latin Lover".