Catholic Traditions 2025

  • 410

    Visigoths sack Rome under king Alaric

  • 418

    Franks take Gaul

  • 431

    Council of Ephesus

    Third Echumenical - defined Mary to be mother of God
  • 445

    Emp. Valentinian lll acknowledges papel supremacy

  • 451

    Council of Chalcedon

    Fourth ecumenical - defined the human and divine natures of Christ in one person
  • 452

    St. Leo l (The Great) meets Atila the Hun

  • 476

    End of Roman Empire, last western emperor is Romulus Augustulus.

  • 493

    Theodoric the Ostrogoth becomes king of Italy

  • 528

    St. Benedict founds monastery at Monte Cassino

  • 553

    Second Council of Constantinople

    Fifth ecumenical- called by Emperor Justinian
  • 570

    Muhammad born at or near Mecca

  • 599

    St Gregory, 590 - 604

  • 611

    Muhammad has vision of archangel Gabriel

  • 624

    Muhammad defeats Meccans at Battle of Baer

  • 637

    Jerusalem captured by Muslim

  • 640

    Library of Alexandria destroyed with 300,000 papyrus scrolls

  • 680

    Third council of Constantinople

    Sixth ecumenical council
  • 684

    Dome of the Rock built over the temple