January 4
1286: Demise of Eustathius I (aka Jevstatije), the sixth Serbian archbishop, who later came to be commemorated as a saint.
1528: Ferdinand of Austria,...
January 3
1521: Martin Luther excommunicated by Pope Leo X for challenging Catholic Church doctrine.
1638: Shogunate warriors of Japan defeat the Christian and peasant rebels...
January 02
1381: Jan Van Ruysbroek, the mystic known as "the Ecstatic Doctor" passes away. His work The Spiritual Espousals (1350), and his commentary on Matthew 25:6 "Behold,...
December 30
1097:Â The first Crusaders, led by figures like Bohemond and Raymond, capture Antioch, they are reported to have experienced the ground shaking, the heavens...
December 29
1170: Martyrdom of Archbishop Thomas à Becket in Canterbury Cathedral by the knights of King Henry II.
1223: The Franciscan religious order formally approved...
December 28
1065 -Consecration of Westminster Abbey before completion; the Abbey was erected by King Edward the Confessor as his burial church and he passed...
