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The period of reformation in the Catholic Catholic Church is a period of great change and relisation.
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Ecumenical council at Nicea ends the controversy over the use of icons in worship.
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Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone is born and baptized in Assisi, Italy; later named Francesco
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Francis fights in a battle between Assisi and Perugia, is captured and imprisoned in Perugia
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The Fourth Crusade begins and ends in failed attempts of trying to secure the Holy Land
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He gives generously to the poor and embraces a leper; he is mocked by fellow Assassins; he seeks solitude with God in caves and abandoned churches
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Writes a rule for his new order; goes to Rome to gain papal approval for the order; settles with his “brothers” in a small church in Assisi called “The Portiuncula”
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Some 5,000 brothers convene; Francis seeks volunteers to preach in Germany, Tunis, and Syria; eventually, brothers reach Spain and England
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Pope Honorius III requires Francis to establish more discipline in his order; recognizing his poor administrative skills, Francis appoints Peter of Catanii as minister general
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Francis writes a letter that becomes the basic rule of the Third Order, a Franciscan order for lay men and women; at the request of church authorities, Francis begins to create a more formal rule for the First Order
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October 3rd St Francis of Assisi Dies
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On July 16, 1228 Francis is canonised and becomes St Francis of Assisi
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Henry VIII becomes supreme head of the English church.