September 27
1177: Pope Alexander III writes a letter to Prester John, a mythical Patriarch, Presbyter and supposedly Christian king over much of central Asia....
September 26
1255: Canonization of Clare of Assisi through Pope Alexander IV, barely two years after her death.
1492: Passing away of Abbot Ephraim, the founder...
September 24
366: Repose of Pope Liberius, who is accused to have been restored from exile only after swearing to a heretical Arian creed.
673: Theodore...
September 23
1122: Emperor Henry V of the Holy Roman Empire renounces his right to install bishops (investiture of ring and crozier) at the Concordat...
September 22
286: (traditional date) Emperor Maximian allegedly executes the members of the Theban Legion to since they refused to renounce their faith.
1566: Repose of...
September 21
1451 Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa condones a regulation obliging Jews of Holland to wear a yellow badge.
1452 Birth of Girolamo Savonarola, a Dominican...
September 20
1246: Tatars, the Turkic-speaking ethnic groups in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, persecute and behead Prince Michael of Chernigov and his boyar (noble attendant),...