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 the eternality of the world, denied providence and free will, and set philosophy above faith and Scripture.
1520: German reformer Martin Luther burns the papal bull “Exsurge Domine” publicly, by which Pope Leo X had demanded him to repeal his “protestant” heresies.
1524: A drunken mob  – incited by religious and secular authorities  – burns the Augustinian monk turned Lutheran minister Henry van Zutphen to death in Holstein.
1561: Demise of Polish-German reformer Kaspar Schwenkfeld, who had rejected infant baptism, and had held that Christ had two natures but became progressively more divine. Another view he spread was  that true believers eat the spiritual body of Christ in Communion.
1593: Italian archaeologist Antonio Bosio begins his research into the underground Christian burial chambers under the streets of Rome, which won him the name “Columbus of the Catacombs.” His works were referred to as authority on the underground tombs of the early Roman Church.
1854: Consecration of the rebuilt structure of the basilica of St Paul’s Outside the Walls – one of four major basilicas in Rome – after a fire had destroyed it in 1823. The original edifice was erected by the Roman emperor Constantine in 324; it was rebuilt into a larger basilica by Emperor Honorius in 395.
1860: Peru promulgates a constitutional provision, making Roman Catholicism the national religion and obligating the State to protect it. The law also  prohibited the public exercise of any other religion.
1968: Demise of Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk, in Bangkok, Thailand. Merton was known for his writings including The Seven Storey Mountain and was an outspoken critic of American involvement in the Vietnam War.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy:Â https://studylight.org