When the greatest persecutions were troubling Asia, Polycarp ended his life by martyrdom. Some ask themselves, "when was Polycarp martyred?" or "Is his martyrdom more important than his death?" According…

The term "Pentecostalism" comes from the Pentecostal Church (also called the "Apostolic Church of God"), which is a Neo-Protestant church. That emerged at the turn of the century with the…

In the Massacre of Saint Bartholomew’s Day, tens of thousands of French Protestants of the Calvinist confession, also known as Huguenots, were executed on the night of 23-24 August 1572…

Between 1478 and 1834, the Spanish Inquisition killed thousands of people in Spain. And also its colonies and arrested tens of thousands more. The organization's stated aim was to eliminate…

Girolamo Savonarola, born September 21, 1452, in Ferrara, was an Italian Dominican monk, preacher, and critic. And reformer of Catholic religious and social mores. Indeed, he was Niccolo Savonarola's son,…

In terms of historical research, the Anabaptist Movement defines itself both as a subject of the history of Christianity within the history of religions. Which belongs to secular science, uses…

The Fourth Lateran Council has ruled on such vexing issues as the use of church property, tithing, legal procedures, and the need for the Patriarchate. It required Jews and Saracens…

Depending on the historical period, the Sorbonne designated, since the 12th century, the University of Paris (the second university in the world after the University of Bologna), and between 1896…

By schism (separation, split), we understand the situation of canonical separation and interruption of liturgical communion between two Churches. Heresy means the erroneous teaching or particular conceptions on dogmatic matters…

The appearance of the Monastery of Cluny in the 10th century went almost unnoticed by contemporaries, but within only two centuries, it would lead a true monastic empire. It was…