tHE PENTEOST (30 AD) MENDICANT ORDERS (13TH CENTURY)

The Holy Spirit descended to the The orders enriched spiritual

apostles following the Ascension experiences by living in poverty
of Jesus Christ, and marked the and preaching in imitation of
beginning of the church Christ and his apostles.

ST. PETER & THE APOSTLES (1ST CENTURY) Papal residency to Avignon (1305-1377)
Under the order of Pope
Christianity began to spread
Clement V, the papal residence
under the guidance of St. Peter
was transferred from Rome to
and the Apostles, and afterwards
Avignon in southern France.
of their successors.

SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY (4TH CENTURY) GREAT WESTERN SCHISM (1378 AD)

At the beginning of the fourth When two popes, and later three
century, Christians made up popes, vied for supremacy, the
about 15% of the population of medieval church entered a,
the Empire. forty-year crisis of authority.

The Age of Martyrs (285-312 AD) COUNCIL OF CONSTANCE (1415-1418 AD)

The Roman political power saw Called to heal the division in the
Christianity as a threat to its Catholic Church and elected
authority, causing Christians to Pope Martin V, thus ending the
be persecuted Western Schism.

Edict of Milan (313 AD) OTTOMAN TURKS CONQUEST (1453 AD)

Emperor Constantine I was The Ottoman Turks conquered
favorable to the Christian religion Constantinople, as well as the
and f granted Christians freedom Balkan people, who became
to profess their faith. under Muslim dominion.

Councils of Nicaea (325 AD) PROTESTANT REFORMATION (1573 AD)

Convened to address Arianism, a the Church entered a grave
doctrine that held heterodox crisis of the “Reformation”
opinions denying the divinity of initiated by founders of different
Christ as well as the Holy Spirit. denominations of Protestantism

Council of Constantinople (381 AD) Council of Trent (1545-1563 ad)

Called by Theodosius I to declare The period of Catholic
the Trinitarian doctrine of the resurgence that was initiated in
equality of the Holy Spirit with response to the Protestant
the Father and the Son. Reformation at the time.

Fall of the Roman Empire (476 AD) royalism & Enlightenment (18th century)
the Church had to fight two
Germanic people with Arians and
enemies with “royalism” being
pagans invaded the Roman
the first and the enlightenment
Empire. The Church then worked
as the second.
to evangelize these people.

Benedictine Monasticism (529 AD) FRENCH REVOLUTION (1791-1801 AD)

Born in the 6th century, which The French Revolution, which
provided oases of peace, started with deportation of the
tranquility and culture in areas lower clergy, subsequently took
surrounding the monasteries. on a clearly antichristian agenda.

END OF Patristic Age (8th century) LIBERALISM (1453 AD)

The Patristic Age ended with the liberalism, a new ideology deeply
last of the Church Fathers, St. opposed to Catholicism arose
John Damascene in the East & St. and eventually contributed to
Bede the Venerable in the West. de-Christianizing society.

CHARLEMAGNE'S CORONATION (800 AD) DOGMA OF PAPAL INFALLIBILITY (1870 AD)

The empire was reestablished in The doctrine that the pope,
the west with Charlemagne’s acting as supreme teacher,
coronation by the pope in St. cannot err when he teaches in
Peter’s Basilica. matters of faith or morals.

PAPACY CRISIS (10TH CENTURY) World War 1 (1914-1918 ad)

the papacy suffered a grave Benedict XV maintained impartial
crisis as the noble families of towards the contending parties
central Italy interfered in the and organized a humanitarian
election of the Pope. effort on behalf of war prisoners

Investiture Controversy (11TH CENTURY) World War 2 (1939-1945 ad)

conflict between the Church and Pius XII faced the trial of World
the state over choosing and War 2, during which he tried
installing bishops, abbots of save as many Jews as he could
monasteries, and the pope . from Nazi persecution.

East-West Schism (1054 ad) Second Vatican Council (1962-1965)

The Long-standing differences John XXIII convoked the Second
between Western and Eastern Vatican Council, opening a new
Christians finally brought about a pastoral era in the Church. The
definitive break council was closed by Paul VI.

Crusades (1096-1291 AD) John Paul II'S pontification (1978-2005 AD)

The growth of military power in he long pontificate of John Paul II
Christian countries took the form helped to counteract the
of crusades to the Holy Land to church's internal crisis, both
recover and defend Jerusalem. doctrinal and disciplinary.