August 13
662: Demise of St. Maximus the Confessor, a vigorous opponent of Monothelitism (the heretical view that Christ had a divine, but no human,...
August 12
844: Charles the Bald, the king of West Francia, donates Bishop Hincmar an estate; the bishop converted it to the hospice of the Abbey of...
August 10
1760: Philip Embury arrive in New York as the first Methodist clergyman to come over from England to America.
1811: Demise of Mrs. Johnston,...
August 9
1253: Pope Innocent IV approves St. Clare's rule  for the Order of the Poor Clares.
1378: French bishops declare Pope Urban VI's election to...
August 8
1471: Passing away of Thomas Kempis, Dutch mystic and devotional author, at the age of 91. His spiritual classic The Imitation of Christ is in...
August 7
44: Herod Agrippa in Caesarea, the persecutor of the Apostles who also had executed Apostle James, passes away.
117: Demise of Marcus Trajan, Roman...
