December 18
1542: Passing away of Solomonia Yuryevna Saburova, in Suzdal, Russia, who was forced into a nunnery because she couldn't bear a son (and...
December 16
1714: Birth of George Whitefield, who later became an international evangelist.
1786: Birth of Konrad Kocher, a famous German chorister and composer of the...
December 15
340: Eusebius (not the historian Eusebius of Caesarea!) becomes the first bishop of Vercelli, Italy. He was consecrated bishop by Pope Julius I...
December 14
1363: Birth of Jean Charlier de Gerson, who became a famous French theologian, and who attended the councils of Pisa (1409) and Constance...
December 12
1199: Pope Innocent III lays the whole of France under an interdict, because King Philip Augustus had taken a second wife without properly...
December 11
1518: Ulrich Zwingli, a Swiss Reformer, elected the People's Preacher at the Old Minster Church in Zurich.
1640: English Puritans introduce the "Root and...
December 10
1270: Leaning upon the huge doctrinal support from Thomas Aquinas and other theologians, the Bishop of Paris condemns Averroism, a teaching which advocated...
