Posted 12:35am CT in Minneapolis on Jan 5, 2008

Researched and written by Gloriscope staff

1964: A historical meeting in Jerusalem between Pope Paul VI and Athenagoras, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople. – It was the first meeting between the heads of the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches since 1439 and the first visit of a Pope to the Holy Land. As a result of that milestone meeting, the 1054 schism between the Eastern and Western parts of the Universal Church was healed after more than 900 years. The pope also met Patriarch Benedictos of Jerusalem

1860: Death of John Neumann, a Roman Catholic Bishop of Philadelphia (1852-60), canonized as a saint by Pope Paul VI in 1977.

1713: Death of the French Protestant explorer Jean Chardin, who explored Persia, the Caucasus, and India.

1527: Death of Felix Manz, a Swiss Protestant and the first martyr of the Baptist movement. – He was an Anabaptist who rejected infant baptism and believed in the “believer’s baptism” and in the Church composed of true believers only. He was a co-founder of the first congregation of Swiss Brethren in Zurich, Switzerland. He was executed by “punishable drowning” in a river and thus became the first Protestant martyr killed by other Protestants.

1484: Pope Innocent II condemns astrology in his papal bull (order) “Summis desiderantes affectibus.”

1066: Death of the English king Edward the Confessor. – He was a devout Christian and was canonized as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church in 1161. He is a patron saint of kings.

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