September 3
590: Consecration of St. Gregory, the Great, as the 64th pope in the Catholic Church. During his pontificate of 14 years, Gregory oversaw the...
September 2
459: Demise of Simeon Stylites, the monk who lived atop a sixty-foot pillar for thirty-six years.
1192: Richard Lionheart and Saladin sign an agreement...
August 31
651 Demise of St. Aidan of Lindisfarne, an Irish monk and missionary who converted the Anglo-Saxons Northumbria, England to Christianity. He founded the...
August 27
1521: Demise of Josquin Desprez, a Flemish composer, a transitional poet between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, who also had written a...
