Tag: Catholicism

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23rd May 1618: Officials thrown from a window in the Second Defenestration of Prague

• 23rd May 2023
• Tagged as: Bohemia, Catholicism, Holy Roman Empire, Prague, Protestantism, Thirty Years War

Two Catholic imperial officials and their secretary were thrown out of the window of the Bohemian Chancellery in the Second Defenestration of Prague.

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21st May 1972: Laszlo Toth attacks and seriously damages Michelangelo’s Pietà statue

• 21st May 2023
• Tagged as: Catholic, Catholicism, Christianity, Destruction, Italy, Michelangelo, Pieta, Religion, Rome, Vandalism

Hungarian-born geologist Laszlo Toth attacked and seriously damaged Michelangelo’s Pietà statue with a hammer.

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18th April 1506: Construction begins on Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome

• 18th April 2023
• Tagged as: Architecture, Catholicism, Church, Constantine the Great, Julius II, Michelangelo, Papacy, Renaissance, Rome, Urban VIII, Vatican, Vatican City

Pope Julius II laid the cornerstone of the current St. Peter’s Basilica, one of Catholicism’s most sacred buildings.

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26th January 1564: Pope Pius IV confirms the decrees of the Council of Trent

• 26th January 2023
• Tagged as: Catholicism, Council of Trent, Counter-Reformation, Martin Luther, Papacy, Pius IV, Pope, Protestantism, Reformation

Pope Pius IV issued a Papal bull confirming the decrees of the Council of Trent that defined Catholic doctrine in the face of the Protestant Reformation.

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3rd November 1534: English Parliament passes the Act of Supremacy

• 3rd November 2022
• Tagged as: Act of Supremacy, Catholicism, Church, Church of England, England, Henry VIII, Papacy, Parliament, Pope, Protestantism, Reformation, Religion

The Parliament of England passed the First Act of Supremacy which made Henry VIII the head of the Church of England.

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31st October 1517: Martin Luther reputedly nails his Ninety-five Theses to a church door in Wittenberg, laying the foundations of the Protestant Reformation

• 31st October 2022
• Tagged as: Catholicism, Christianity, Church, Indulgences, Martin Luther, Pope, Protestantism, Reformation, Religion, Wittenberg

Martin Luther’s particular concern was the Catholic church’s practice of selling indulgences with a promise that a buyer’s sins would be absolved.

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11th October 1521: King Henry VIII of England given the title Defender of the Faith by Pope Leo X

• 11th October 2022
• Tagged as: Catholicism, Christianity, Church of England, Defender of the Faith, England, Henry VIII, Monarchy, Pope Paul III, Religion

The Pope granted the Latin title Fidei defensor to Henry after he published a book in which he defended Catholic doctrine against the criticisms levelled at it by Martin Luther in his Ninety-five Theses during the early stages of the Protestant Reformation.

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4th October 1582: Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian calendar

• 4th October 2022
• Tagged as: Calendar, Catholicism, Date, Papacy, Pope, Pope Gregory XIII, Rome, Time

By the 16^th Century a sizable drift had developed between the Julian calendar, the lunar calendar, and the real moon which the new calendar sought to resolve.

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15th July 1834: Abolition of the Spanish Inquisition, formally known as the Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition

• 15th July 2022
• Tagged as: Catholicism, Christianity, Inquisition, Judaism, Religion, Spain, Spanish Inquisition

By the time it was abolished, up to 150,000 people had been tried by the Spanish Inquisition, of whom somewhere between two and five thousand were executed.

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7th April 1498: Savonarola takes part in a failed trial by fire that was intended to test his holiness

• 7th April 2022
• Tagged as: Catholicism, Christianity, Florence, Italy, Religion, Savonarola, Trial by Fire, Trial by Ordeal

The belief was that God would intervene to protect Savonarola from the flames, but he and his opponents squabbled for so long that a rainstorm eventually led to the cancellation of the event.