WEDNESDAY May 10, 2000 volume 11, no. 90

Historical Events in Church Annals for May 10:

• 1291 A.D.
• It is purported on this day that the angels wisk the home of the Blessed Mother and Joseph in Nazareth to Dalmatia.

• 1285 A.D.
• Philip IV, known as "the Fair" becomes king of France. It would be through his influence that the popes would be moved to Avignon, beginning in 1309 the seventy year Avignon Exile or the Babylonian Captivity of the Papacy.