History in Colour: Sister Brigid Flanagan
A snapshot from the past, colourised exclusively for The Southern Cross In the Catholic Church of Southern Africa, and indeed worldwide, Holy Family Sister Brigid Flanagan was...
History in Colour
History in Colour: Fr Angelo Roncalli (Pope John XXIII)
Italy entered the war in 1915 on the side of the Allies against Germany and Austria. Fr Roncall — who had been ordained 1904 — was drafted...
History in Colour: SA’s First Black Priests
A snapshot from the past, colourised exclusively for The Southern Cross South Africa’s first four black priests in a photograph first published in 1924. At the back...
History in Colour: First Catholic Church in Johannesburg
A snapshot from the past, colourised exclusively for The Southern Cross This is the first Catholic church in Johannesburg, on the corner of 148 Fox and Smal...
History in Colour: Dorothy Day
US Catholic activist Dorothy Day is seated amid armed policemen during a protest in this still from the documentary film Revolution of the Heart: The Dorothy Day...
History in Colour: Archbishop Denis Hurley
Archbishop Denis Hurley OMI, carrying a large cross, leads an ecumenical group of people past Durban’s Central Post Office during the 1988 Good Friday Procession of the...
History in Colour: Fatima Miracle of the Sun
Some of the tens of thousands of people who witnessed the “Miracle of the Sun” at the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal, on October 13, 1917....
History in Color: The Bells of St Mary’s
Bing Crosby as Fr Chuck O’Malley and Ingrid Bergman as Sr Mary Benedict in the 1945 film The Bells of St Mary’s. Directed by Leo McCarey, like...
History in Colour: Remembrance Day
In many parts of the world, including South Africa, November is Remembrance Month, in which we are called to remember those who fell in wars. The tradition...
History in Colour: Seminarians March to Union Buildings
On September 4, 1985, a group of 32 seminarians of St John Vianney Seminary marched on the Union Buildings in Pretoria to protest against apartheid. It was...
