Historical Events in Church Annals for June 30:

• 1139 A.D.
• Death of Saint Otto, bishop and missionary from Bamberg who strove to heal the breach between Pope Paschal II and the Holy Roman Emperor Henry V during a time when there were five succeeding antipopes. Otto was canonized by Pope Clement III in 1189.

• 1741 A.D.
• Pope Benedict XIV releases the second official encyclical - Quanta cura which treats the subject of forbidding traffic in alms.

• 1998 A.D.
• Pope John Paul II issues his Apostolic Letter Ad tuendam fidem dealing with dissident theologians and those who keep trying to push for ordination of women as the Holy Father litterally takes the bull by the horns with this papal bull calling for disciplinary measures against those who teach a tune other than what they must as members of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.

Historical Events in Church Annals for July 1:

• 69 A.D.
• The Roman Vespasian becomes Roman Emperor, giving Christians a breather after the intense persecutions of Nero. During Vespacian's reign which practically paralled Saint Peter's immediate successor Pope Saint Linus, persecution of the Christians was relaxed except in the far regions of the empire. Both Vespacian and Linus died in 78 A.D.

• 1270 A.D.
• Saint Louis IX, King of France, departs on his final crusade which would end a month and a half later in Tunis when he would succumb to the fever.

• 1535 A.D.
• Saint Thomas More is indicted for high treason for refusing to defy Rome at Henry VIII's order.

• 1769 A.D.
• The Franciscan missionary Blessed Father Junipero Serra lands in San Diego, California where two weeks later, on the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, he would establish the first of 21 california missions - San Diego de Alcala.

Historical Events in Church Annals for July 2:

• 311 A.D.
• Saint Miltiades becomes the first African Pope as the 32nd successor of Peter. During his pontificate the emperor Constantine would issue his decree of tolerance for the Christian faith. It was Miltiades who constructed the Basilica of St. John Lateran.

• 1894 A.D.
• Pope Leo XIII releases his 54th encyclical Litteras a vobis intended for the bishops of Brazil on the clergy of Brazil.

June 30 - July 2, 2000
volume 11, no. 115
MILLENNIUM MILESTONES

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