Renaissance

Renaissance
See also: Renaissance
1305-1378 Avignon Papacy, Popes reside in Avignon, France
1311 Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri
1311-1312 Catholic Council of Vienne, disbanded Knights Templar
1314 Jacques de Molay, last Grandmaster of Knights Templar, burned at the stake
1326 Metropolitan Peter moves his see from Kiev to Moscow
1341-1351 Orthodox Fifth Council of Constantinople
1342 Marsilius of Padua
1345 Sergii Radonezhskii founds a hermitage in the woods, which would grow into the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra
1347-1350 Black Death
1378-1418 Western Schism in Roman Catholicism
1380-1382 Wyclif’s Bible, by John Wycliffe, eminent theologian at Oxford, NT in 1380, OT (with help of Nicholas of Hereford) in 1382, translations into Middle English, 1st complete translation to English, included deuterocanonical books, preached against abuses, expressed anti-catholic views of the sacraments (Penance and Eucharist), the use of relics, and Clerical celibacy
1408 Council of Oxford forbids translations of the Scriptures into the vernacular unless and until they were fully approved by Church authority
1409 Council of Pisa, declared Roman Pope Gregory XII and Avignon Pope Benedict XIII deposed, elected Pope Alexander V (called the Pisan Pope)
1414-1418 Catholic Council of Constance, asked Gregory XII, Benedict XIII, Pisan Pope John XXIII to resign their papal claims, then elected Pope Martin V; condemned John Wycliffe and Jan Hus who was burned at the stake
1423-1424 Council of Siena
1425 Catholic University of Leuven
1430? Andrei Rublev, the greatest of medieval icon-painters
1431 St. Joan of Arc, French national heroine, burned at the stake
1431-1445 Catholic Council of Basel-Ferrara-Florence
1439 Notre-Dame de Strasbourg, highest building in the world till 1874
1453 Fall of Constantinople, overrun by Ottoman Empire
1455 Gutenberg Bible, first printed Bible, by Johann Gutenberg
1473-1481 Sistine Chapel built
1478 Spanish Inquisition established by Pope Sixtus IV
1484 December 5, Summis desiderantes against Witchcraft issued by Pope Innocent VIII
1498 Girolamo Savonarola, Dominican priest, Bonfire of the Vanities
1506 Pope Julius II orders the Old St. Peter’s Basilica torn down and authorizes Donato Bramante to plan a new structure, demolition completed in 1606, Vatican Swiss Guard founded
1508-1512 Michelangelo frescoes the Sistine Chapel’s vaulted ceiling
1512-1517 Catholic Fifth Council of the Lateran, condemned Conciliarism

On this day…

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• Jeremiah 10 – 2024
• Jeremiah 9 – 2024
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• Jesus’ intercession for the apostles – 2012
• A Political Question about Justice – 2012
• Called of God – 2012
• Roman’s Introduction – 2012
• Beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me – 2012
• Personal Discipline – 2011