Pope Martin IV

how to prepare for the coming war and when it would officially start. While it would seem simple to spread the preaching of the Pope, it would soon come to show that it was an important task to account for what Pope Urban II had preached, as there are some that view it as essential history of the expedition and its…

The world underwent many changes between 200 C. E. and 1000 C. E. In the region of the Americas, Teotihuacan fell in 750, while the Anasazi culture flourished and grew from 700 onwards. The Tiwanaku and Wari controlled the Peruvian Highlands in the Andes between 600 and 1000. Between 800 and 900, the Mayan centers were abandoned in the Yucatan Peninsula, and the Mississippian cultures began to develop in the 900’s in North America. The Toltec founded their capital of Tula in 968. In India,…

The Protestant Reformation was a massively important European religious and political movement. For the first time in over half a millennium, the European Church split. H. G. Wells said that this happened because people, “objected not to the church’s power, but to its weaknesses… Their movements against the Church, within and without, were movements not for release from a religious control, but for a fuller and more abundant religious control.” While the Catholic Church was undeniably becoming…

Early Modern Europe was a highly religious area. The Church controlled a massive portion of people’s lives. Most people’s beliefs about their own nature were based in religion. The concept of humanity was controlled by religious texts and interpreted by religious officials. Whatever religious power was dominant also held a lot of political power. There was no separation between church and state so religious practices and ideals went hand in hand with political and administrative power. For a…

This Christian way of life took on its own form in Ireland, as this is where the rise of the penitential started. As the Irish were trying to spread their new version of Christianity, Pope Gregory I was also trying to spread Roman Christianity in the same areas. Luckily Gregory I’s methods were of the violent type. One of Gregory’s greatest tools in these conversions was the monk Augustine, who converted King Ethelbert of Kent and his…

multitude of sinners, would be casted out and the church would stand strong. Next there are the views of Sulpicius Severus, a Christian elite of his time who would share his ideas of the apocalypse while being mentored by Martin. While being his mentee, Severus knows that Martin is talking directly to the saints to find out the details of the apocalypse and in a dialogue between him and a friend, he would share these ideas.” “But when we questioned him concerning the end of the world, he said to…

as that God founded his church on top of Peter, which as a result made Peter the first Pope in history. The Catholics kept the tradition of Popedom till the time of present. Despite the fact that the Roman Catholic Church was fairly corrupted and turned away from the truth of God, Fr. Karol Josef Wojtyla, otherwise known as Pope John Paul II, lived out the Gospel and done good works in the world. He, as the pope, had changed the opinion of so many non-Christians towards Christianity. Thus we can…

Canterbury was hugely significant, and in a letter to from Pope Innocent III to the bishops in England, in 1207, Innocent writes that John is 'persecuting'2 Stephen Langton. This source was written before the Interdict, so gives some explanation of how it came to be that John was excommunicated, with the country under an Interdict, as it provides evidence that the Pope did not agree with what John was doing. The Interdict imposed by Pope Innocent III in March 1208 could be argued to have…

The First Crusade and the idea of crusading was not as much a rupture in a way of thinking as much as it was an evolution of the ideas which originated from the Cluniac papal reforms began by Pope Gregory VII and continued by his successor, Pope Urban II. The response to Pope Urban II’s call for the crusade at the Council of Clermont in 1095 was a large mobilization of both knights as well as clerical and lay noncombatants. However, there were numerous impetuses of both spiritual and…

2 Constantine the Great, also known as Flavius Valerius Constantinus, was born in what is now Nisch in Servia, to a Roman officer. Close Panel 3 Constantine the Great was the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity. Close Panel Some of his accomplishments, according to Health Research Funding, include setting himself apart form the Roman army because of his background; “growing up in a privileged-but-restrained home, which included a fine education, Constantine…