DAILY CATHOLIC    FRI-SAT-SUN     May 8-10, 1998     vol. 9, no. 90

ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME:
TIME CAPSULES

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THIS DAY IN CHURCH HISTORY

Historical Events in Church Annals for May 8:

  • 615 A.D.
  • Death of Pope Saint Boniface IV, the 67th successor of Peter who instituted All Saints Day on November 1 and sanctioned moral an material improvements for the lower clergy.

  • 1191 A.D.
  • Richard I and his army arrive on the shores of Cyprus.

  • 1429 A.D.
  • The English abandon the Siege of Orleans because of the bravery of Saint Joan of Arc.

  • 1521 A.D.
  • Birth of Saint Peter Canisius in Nijmegen, Netherlands who became a Jesuit and would be sent back to his homeland by the founder Saint Ignatius of Loyola himself to reconvert the Protestants. He became a Doctor of the Church


THIS DAY IN CHURCH HISTORY

Historical Events in Church Annals for May 9:

  • 1271 A.D.
  • Prince Edward arrives in Acre with his English crusaders during the Eighth Crusade.

  • 1502 A.D.
  • The explorer Christopher Columbus sets out on his fourth voyage to the New World.


THIS DAY IN CHURCH HISTORY

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.


May 8-10, 1998       volume 9, no. 90
TIME CAPSULES
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