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For the time of 70 years, seven popes resided at Avignon.
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The Ecumenical Council of Vienne, suppressed the Knights Templar. They enacted a number of reform decrees.
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Dante Alighieri died a year after completing the Divine Comedy.
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For the time of 20 years it was the period of the Hundred Years’ War, a dynastic struggle between France and England.
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A deadly disease that spread all around Europe for 3 years killed 40% of the total population. It estimated to kill between 75 million to 200 million.
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Return of the papacy from Avignon to Rome
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The Council of Pisa, without canonical authority, tried to end the Western Schism but succeeded only in complicating it by electing a third claimant to the papacy; see Western Schism.
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St. Joan of Arc was killed on the the stake. She was burned alive.
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Pope Sixtus IV approved observance of the feast of the Immaculate Conception on Dec. 8 throughout the Church.
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Christopher Columbus set sails and in 1492 discovers new land and names it USA.
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Beginning of the reign (to 1603) of Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland,
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Elizabeth I was excommunicated. Penal measures against Catholics subsequently became more severe.
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The Gunpowder Plot, an attempt by Catholic fanatics to blow up James I of England and the houses of Parliament, resulted in an anti-Catholic Oath of Allegiance
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Pope Innocent X condemned five propositions of Jansenism, a complex theory which distorted doctrine concerning the relations between divine grace and human freedom.
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The Test Act in England barricaded Catholics who would not deny the doctrine of transubstantiation and the receiving Communion.
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The Passionists were founded by St. Paul of the Cross, in 1720.
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Catholics in England were relieved of some civil disabilities dating back to the time of Henry VIII. But an act which was permitted them to acquire on there own behalf.
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The Society of Jesus, suppressed since 1773, was restored.
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The Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to St. Bernadette at Lourdes 18 times in Lourdes, France. She said to come once every month to say the rosary to her.
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The Church of England started the effect of the Movement of the Oxford, that resulted in notable conversions.
