Believed to be 29 AD Our Lord's Resurrection. The First Pentecost.
St. Peter preaches in Jerusalem and converts three thousand people,
creating the first Christian community. The year 35 Saul of Tarsus has
an apparition of Jesus Christ and is converted to Christianity.
In 39 AD St. Peter baptizes Cornelius. This event marks the beginning
of the missionizing to the Gentiles.
In 42 The first persecution of Christians in Jerusalem under Herod Agrippa.
Many Christians escape to Antioch, establishing its first community.
In 44 Martyrdom of St. James the Great, brother of the Apostle John.
He is the first apostle to die for the faith. He was sentenced by Herod
Agrippa in 44 AD. Today he is honored at the shrine of Santiago
Compostela.
51 AD The Council of Jerusalem. It rules that Gentile converts do not
have to observe the Moasaic Law.
In 62 Martyrdom of St James the Less, Bishop of Jerusalem. He is
stoned to death.
64 AD First persecution of the Christians by Nero, who blames them
for setting a fire that burned much of Rome. Christianity soon after
becomes a capital crime.
In 66 Jews revolt against Roman authority. The Christians,
remembering the prophecies of Christ, leave Jerusalem, led by their
bishop, St. Simeon. A civil war ensues. Nero sends Vespasian and
Titus to put down the insurrection. 65 the Martyrdom of St. Paul.
67 Martyrdom of St. Peter. Tradition states that he was crucified
upside down. St. Linus succeeds him as Pope (-76).
*69 Fall of Jerusalem. The Temple is destroyed. Tacitus records
that 600,000 Jews were slaughtered during the siege;
Josephus said it was a million.
Jerusalem (A.D. 71-1099)
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And after a few hundred years, things went steeply downhill with these un-holy "fathers" and their actions. Exapnd your list to show the monumental progress achieved by these popes::
Pope Stephen VI (896 - 897) brought the dead body of former Pope Formosus (891 - 897) to trial, hacked off his decaying finger and had him dragged through the streets ofRomeand thrown into theTiber River.
Pope Sergius III (904 - 911) obtained his office by murder. He fathered several illegitimate children by Marozia, who assassinated Pope Leo VI (928 - 929), and put her own teenage son (John XI) as Pope.
Pope John XII (955 - 964) is described in the Catholic encyclopedia as a co****, immoral man. The Catholic collection of the lives of the Popes, the "Liber Pontificalis" said: "He spent his entire life in adultery." Catholic bishop Luitprand states that "he had no respect for single girls, married woman or widows - they were sure to be defiled by him."
Pope Boniface VII (984 - 985), John XII and Leo VIII were described by the Bishop of Orleans as "monsters of guilt, reeking in blood and filth."
Pope Benedict IX (1033 - 1045) committed murders and adulteries in broad daylight, robbed pilgrims, and was regarded as a hideous criminal. The people drove him out ofRome: The Catholic encyclopedia says, "He was a disgrace to the chair of Peter."
Pope Boniface VIII (1294 - 1303). The Catholic encyclopedia states "Scarcely any possible crime was omitted - heresy, gross and unnatural immorality, idolatry, magic, simony ... his whole pontificate was one record of evil." Dante visitedRomeand described theVaticanas a "sewer of corruption" and assigned Boniface VII, Nicholas III and Clement V to the "lowest parts of hell." He proposed to be an atheist and in 1302 issued the "Unum Sanctum" officially declaring the Roman Catholic church as the only true church, outside of which on one can be saved.
Pope Pius II (1458 - 1464) fathered many illegitimate children and taught others to do likewise.
Pope Alexander VI (1492 - 1503) committed incest with his two sisters and daughter. On October 31, 1501 he conducted the worst ever sex orgy in theVatican.
Pope Paul III (1534 - 1549) as a cardinal fathered three sons and a daughter and sought advice from astrologers.
