DAILY CATHOLIC    FRI-SAT-SUN      June 19-21, 1998     vol. 9, no. 119

ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME: TIME CAPSULES

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THIS DAY IN CHURCH HISTORY

Historical Events in Church Annals for June 19:

  • 325 A.D.
  • Pope Saint Sylvester I opens the First Ecumenical Council of Nicea where the Nicene Creed would be adopted by the Church.

  • 1097 A.D.
  • Crusaders capture the city of Nicea from the infidels during the First Crusade, called by Pope Urban II.

  • 1341 A.D.
  • Death of Saint Juliana Falconieri, virgin and foundress of the Servite nuns who died in Firenze at the age of 71 and was canonized by Pope Clement XII in 1731.

  • 1856 A.D.
  • Death of Saint Emily de Vialar, daughter of a baron who was left a fortune by her grandmother and used it to purchase and build several facilities to help the poor and sick, founding the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Apparition in 1832. But politicis came into play with Bishop Dupuch of Algiers which closed the houses there, as well as seizing the motherhouse in Toulouse. No matter her struggles, she accepted all as God's Will, always claiming that she had plenty of trials, but that God was always there for her. Despite her struggles there were 40 houses operating when she died. She was canonized by Pope Pius XII in 1951.


THIS DAY IN CHURCH HISTORY

Historical Events in Church Annals for June 20:

  • 840 A.D.
  • Death of King Louis I "the Pious", Holy Roman Emperor and son of Charlemagne, who worked closely with Pope Gregory IV in spreading the faith to the region of Gallia known as France. He was the last of the "pure" Holy Roman Emperors for on his death three claimed the throne - his son Louis, the notorious Lothair, and Louis I's brother Charles the Bald.

  • 981 A.D.
  • Death of Saint Adalbert of Magdeburg, bishop and Benedictine who was sent to Russia by Holy Roman Emperor Otto the Great and became known as the great missionary to the Slavs.

  • 1499 A.D.
  • Queen Isabella, on the strong advice of Christopher Columbus and his findings, condemns the enslavement of the Indians discovered in the New World. Sadly, many avaricious men discarded her order and mistreated the "savages" for their own purposes.

  • 1632 A.D.
  • Lord George Calvert Baltimore receives the Charter to found the colony of Maryland, named after the Blessed Mother and open to all faiths, but especially a refuge for persecuted Catholics. To this day Baltimore remains a Catholic stronghold on the eastern seaboard.


THIS DAY IN CHURCH HISTORY

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.


June 19-21, 1998       volume 9, no. 119
TIME CAPSULES
DAILY CATHOLIC

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