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Reading scripture in unity with Sacred Tradition and the teaching authority of the Church.
Key question: “How does this passage illuminate and cohere with the deposit of faith handed down through Sacred Tradition?”
24,276 sermon illustrations through the Roman Catholic lens
7/20 (1949): The Israel-Syria Mixed Armistice Commission brokers the last of four ceasefire agreements to end the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
9/11 (9): The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ends: The Roman Empire suffers the greatest defeat of its history and the Rhine is established as the border between the Empire and the so-called barbarians for the next four hundred years.
1/15 (1822): Greek War of Independence: Demetrios Ypsilantis is elected president of the legislative assembly.
9/2 (1792): During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
This act impresses the Christian Emperor Honorius, who issues a historic ban on gladiatorial fights.
12/25 (1100): Baldwin of Boulogne is crowned the first King of Jerusalem in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
All crew members are killed.