Historical Events in Church Annals for June 21:

• 1002 A.D.
• Birth of Bruno Egisheim, son of Count Hugh in Lorraine, who would grow up to become Pope Saint Leo IX, 152nd successor of Peter who entered Rome to be coronated as Pope barefoot out of humility. He would excommunicate Michael Cerularius, the man responsible for the lasting schism between the Greek Church and the Latin Church.

• 1591 A.D.
• Death of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, an early Jesuit pioneer who sought to teach the youth and minister to the dying victims of the plague which he also eventually caught and died after receiving the last rites from Saint Robert Bellarmine. He was canonized in 1726 by Pope Benedict XIII and later declared Patron Saint of Youth by Pope Pius IX.

• 1633 A.D.
• Italian physicist Galileo is forced by the Court of Inquisition to reject his Copernican heliocentric views, which the Church would later allow when more facts revealed the astronomer was correct in his findings.

Historical Events in Church Annals for June 22:

• 431 A.D.
• Death of Saint Paulinus of Nola, French bishop who lived in Spain with his wife Theresia, and who co-founded a monastery and operated many hospices and cared for the shrine of Saint Felix. Note, these were the times before celibacy was a requirement of the priesthood. For more see TODAY'S LITURGY

• 1101 A.D.
• Death of the Norman King Roger I of Sicily during the reign of Pope Paschal II. Roger was the first of the Norman invasion to the island stronghold south of Italy and the alignment with Naples and Robert of Naples, which was the beginning time of constant clashes with the Holy See that would last for centuries.

• 1276 A.D.
• Death of Blessed Pope Innocent V, French-born pontiff and 185th successor of Peter who ruled exactly four months but is known for extending Christianity to Mongolia by personally baptizing the three ambassadors sent to him by the Great Khan.

• 1535 A.D.
• Death of Saint John Fisher, Bishop, executed by King Henry VIII for refusing to disobey Rome. For more see DAILY LITURGY

• 1622 A.D.
• Pope Gregory XV, 234th successor of Peter, in order to help the missionary effort of spreading the faith to all corners of the earth establishes Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith with the bull Inscrutabili. Today this Congregation is headed by Cardinal Josef Tomko as the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.

June 21-22, 2000
volume 11, no. 111
MILLENNIUM MILESTONES

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