Catholic Church from 600 - 1600

Pope Gregory strives for the Peaceful Conversion of the Jews

Dec 24, 600

Pope Gregory converted some the Jews by showing picture books to the illterate of the bible. This event is a good showing of the church because they are trying to gain followers peacefully and not because the are taken over by some empire who followed the religion.

Sixth Ecumenical Council

Nov 7, 680

the Catholic Church and other Christian groups, met in 680 and condemned monoenergism and monothelitism as heretical and defined Jesus Christ as having two energies and two wills.

Trullo Council

Dec 24, 692

This council was intended to be a continuation of the fifth and sixth ecumenical councils, which had not issued any disciplinary canons, unlike previous general councils. Although the Council in Trullo was never fully accepted by the Latin Church at any time, the Greeks intended its canons to serve as a rule for the entire Catholic Church.

All Saints' Day

Oct 31, 700

All Saints' Day, also known as All Hallows, Day of All the Saints, Solemnity of All Saints, or Feast of All Saints is a festival celebrated on 1 November by the Latin Church of the Roman Catholic Church and some other Western Christian traditions, and on the first Sunday after Pentecost in Eastern Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy, in honour of all the saints, known and unknown. The liturgical celebration begins at Vespers on the evening of 31 October and ends at the close of 1 November.

Seventh Ecumenical Council

Dec 24, 787

Disputes concerning the Person of Christ did not end with the sixth Council in AD 681, but continued through the eighth and ninth centuries. This time, the controversy focused on icons—pictures of Christ, the Theotokos, the saints, and holy events—and lasted for 120 years, starting in AD 726. Icons were kept and venerated in both churches and private homes.

Pope Leo III Becomes Supreme Bishop of the West

Dec 25, 800

Pope Leo is best known for crowning Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor and for promoting the vision of the Christian world as a single, orderly, peaceful society under the ultimate authority of the Bishop of Rome as Christ's deputy on earth. Pope Leo was a corrupt individual because he wanted the church to be the supreme power in daily life not just spirital.

Charlemagne Reforms church

Dec 25, 800

He was a great military conqueror, and channeled this talent into the service of the church, for in taking over most of Western Europe and a fair bit of the east, he used military force to compel all his subject peoples to become Christian. Charlemagne converted people by using corrupt ways which doesn't help the church's reputation.

Vladimir adopts Christianity

Dec 24, 988

The church's influence has already reached Russia during the early 900's but it wasn't until Vladimir do people count Christianity becoming the religion of Russia. This event helped out Russia when Vladimir devoted his life by helping the poor, built schools, and abolished the death penalty.

The East-West Schism

Jul 16, 1054

On Saturday, July 16, 1054, as afternoon prayers were about to begin, Cardinal Humbert, legate of Pope Leo IX, strode into the Cathedral of Hagia Sophia, right up to the main altar, and placed on it a parchment that declared the Patriarch of Constantinople, Michael Cerularius, to be excommunicated. A week later the patriarch solemnly condemned the cardinal.Today people think that it wasn't just this event that caused the schism between the churches.

Excommunication of Married Priests

Dec 24, 1074

Only in 1074 did the church rule that all priests must either throw out their families or lose their jobs. Pope Gregory VII called it a “sundering the commerce between the clergy and women through an eternal anathema.” And since most priests were still married at the time, this was the greatest mass divorce in world history. This event was a bad event because many families need a male figure to survive in the medieval society.

The First Crusade

Nov 24, 1095

Finally, in 1095, in response to desperate appeals
from Eastern Emperor Alexius Comnenus, the new pope, Urban II, preached a stirring sermon at Clermont: “A horrible tale has gone forth,” he said. “An accursed race utterly alienated from God … has invaded the lands of the Christians and depopulated them by the sword, plundering, and fire.” This event is a corrupt part of the church showing the abuse of power and the killing of innocent people in the crusade.

Second Crusade

Dec 24, 1147

The Second Crusade was started in response to the fall of the County of Edessa the previous year to the forces of Zengi. The county had been founded during the First Crusade (1096–1099) by king Baldwin of Boulogne in 1098. While it was the first Crusader state to be founded, it was also the first to fall. All crusade events are corrput because many were killing and raping innocent people.

Third crusade

Dec 24, 1189

was an attempt by European leaders to reconquer the Holy Land from Saladin (Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb). The campaign was largely successful, capturing the important cities of Acre and Jaffa, and reversing most of Saladin's conquests, but it failed to capture Jerusalem, the emotional and spiritual motivation of the Crusade. All crusade events are corrput because many were killing and raping innocent people.

Fourth crusade

Dec 24, 1202

Western European armed expedition called by Pope Innocent III, originally intended to conquer Muslim-controlled Jerusalem by means of an invasion through Egypt. Instead, a sequence of events culminated in the Crusaders sacking the city of Constantinople, the capital of the Christian-controlled Byzantine Empire. All crusade events are corrput because many were killing and raping innocent people.

Thomas Aquinas Concludes His Word on Summa Theologiae

Dec 24, 1272

“The Dumb Ox”—that was the name given by his college classmates to the heavy, quiet, and serious lad from the Count of Aquino’s family. They might never have guessed that the Ox would produce eighteen huge volumes of theology, nor that the theological system he constructed would become an official theology of Catholicism

The Great Papal Schism

Mar 24, 1378

In 1377, after the papacy had been resident for almost seventy years at Avignon, under the shadow of French royal power, Gregory XI had finally succeeded in bringing it back to Rome. He had done so despite the hostility of some of the Roman nobility and some of his own cardinals. When he died in March 1378, six of the twenty-two cardinals were still in residence at Avignon, where a considerable part of the papal bureaucracy was still functioning. This event shows the corruption in the church.

Joan of Arc Martyed

May 30, 1431

In May 1430, the Burgundians laid siege to Compiegne, and Joan stole into the town under the cover of darkness to aid in its defense. On May 23, while leading a sortie against the Burgundians, she was captured. The Burgundians sold her to the English, and in March 1431 she went on trial before ecclesiastical authorities in Rouen on charges of heresy. This event was corrupt because the church killed he because she said she was following the will of god not the will of the church.

Spanish Inquistion established by Pope Sixtus Fourth

Nov 1, 1478

Pope Sixtus tried to establish harmony between the inquisitors and the ordinaries, but was unable to maintain control of the desires of Ki ng Ferdinand V and Queen Isablella. Sixtus agreed to recognize the independence of the Spanish Inquisition. This institution survived to the beginning of the 19th century, and was permanently suppressed by a decree on July 15, 1834. This event is corrupt because Spain started to torture and kill people who didn't follow the christian faith.

Gutenberg Produces the First Printed Bible

Aug 24, 1495

By the following August, however, a copy of Gutenberg’s forty-two-line Bible—specifically, Jerome’s Latin translation, the Vulgate—was completed. The Bible, which was printed simultaneously on six printing presses, was stunning. Some collectors say this first printed book is also the most beautiful ever printed, and they pay astounding sums for the forty or fifty copies that survive of the original two hundred. This event helped spread Christianity across all of Europe.

Martin Luther Protest of the Church

Oct 31, 1517

Luther wrote to his bishop, Albert of Mainz, protesting the sale of indulgences. He enclosed in his letter a copy of his "Disputation of Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences", which came to be known as The Ninety-Five Theses. Hans Hillerbrand writes that Luther had no intention of confronting the church, but saw his disputation as a scholarly objection to church practices. This was a good event for the church because someone was trying to stop indulgences.

King Henry VIII Declears Himself Head of the Church

Jul 24, 1536

King Henry VIII declaring that he was "the only supreme head on Earth of the Church of England" and that the English crown shall enjoy "all honours, dignities, preeminences, jurisdictions, privileges, authorities, immunities, profits, and commodities to the said dignity." The wording of the Act made clear that Parliament was not granting the King the title it was acknowledging an established fact. Henry creating his own church is bad because he only did it to divorce his wifes.

First Protestants Burned at the Stake by Spanish Inquisition

Dec 24, 1543

Protestants were executed under heresy laws during persecutions against Protestant religious reformers for their religious denomination during the reigns of Henry VIII (1509–1547) and Mary I of England (1553–1558). Radical Protestants were also executed during the reigns of Edward VI (1547–1553), Elizabeth I (1558–1603) and James I (1603–1625). The execution were recored in Foxe's Book of Martyrs. This event was bad because they are killing people who don't believe in the catholic church.

Council of Trent

Dec 24, 1545

The Council of Trent met three times over a period of 18 years: 1545-1547; 1551-1552; and 1562-1563, as an official response to the standards of the Protestant Reformers and Conciliarism, the concept that doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church resided more in official church councils, than in the interpretation of the Pope.

Geneva Bible

Dec 24, 1560

The Geneva Bible is one of the most historically significant translations of the Bible into English, preceding the King James translation by 51 years.It was the primary Bible of 16th century Protestantism and was the Bible used by William Shakespeare, Oliver Cromwell, John Knox, John Donne, and John Bunyan, author of Pilgrim's Progress (1678). This is a good event because more people were able to get the word of the bible and spread the faith not with violence.

Douay-Rheims Bible

Dec 24, 1582

The Douay–Rheims Bible is a translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate into English made by members of the English College, Douai, in the service of the Catholic Church. The New Testament portion was published in Reims, France, in 1582, in one volume with extensive commentary and notes. The Old Testament portion was published in two volumes thirty years later by the University of Douai.