One of Michelangelo’s most famous works, the painting of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel – was unveiled to the public on November 1, 1512. Known as the “Pope’s Private Chapel”, it was named for Pope Sixtus IV and is the site of the gathering of the College of Cardinals when a new Pope is elected.

When Galileo published his theory that the Earth revolved around the sun in 1610, he stirred up controversy with the Roman Catholic who chastised him for heresy. The Church taught the world revolved around Earth and not the sun. Galileo went on to theorize that waves and comets also proved our solar orbit and the Pope sentenced him to house …

Bob Jones University was founded in 1927 by evangelist Bob Jones, Sr. who felt too many students lost their understanding of Christian values while in college. Before the university found its permanent home in Greenville, SC, it was located in Bay County, FL, and Cleveland, TN. Bob Jones, Sr. was born on October 30, 1883.

A Greek monk named Regulus saw in a dream that the relics of the Apostle Andrew were going to be moved from his church in Patras, Greece to Constantinople.  Regulus absconded with the sacred bones and fled to Scotland where he was shipwrecked on October 29, 345 at the site that would become the seat of the church in Scotland.  …

The conversion of Roman Emperor Constantine to Christianity is a major milestone in Christian history. While historians still argue if Constantine’s conversion was legitimate, his acceptance of Christ traditionally took place on October 28, 312 when he fought a battle against his pagan co-emperor, Maxentius, at the Milvian Bridge just outside Rome. Constantine claims to have seen a sign of …

Other than the Wesleys, no other person had a greater impact on Methodism in America than Francis Asbury.  A tireless circuit rider, Asbury landed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on October 27, 1771 and would found churches and support congregations for decades.  This is a statue of him in Washington, DC. 

Christianity’s dominance in England can be given much credit to King Alfred the Great who died on October 26, 899.  Alfred was not only a patron of education for his subjects but saw his defeat of the Danes as a defining event of ridding England of pagan religions. 

The heresy of Nestorianism was dealt a major blow on October 25, 431 when the Council of Ephesus replaced Nestorius as the Bishop of Constantinople. Nestorius held the belief that Jesus Christ had two natures (divine and human) that existed separately instead of the theological understanding that Jesus was both God and man at the same time. This is a …

The end of the Thirty Years’ War in Europe occurred after months of negotiations at the Peace of Westphalia on October 24, 1648.  The War was a culmination of the fights in Europe on whether a kingdom/principality/empire/country was going to remain loyal to the Roman Catholic Church or whether they would practice Protestantism.  While Europe was literally carved up, it …

Chiang-Kai-Shek, the leader of the Republic of China which was better known as Taiwan, was converted to Catholicism by his mother on October 23, 1930.  He was the primary opponent of the Chinese Communists who were leadership of Mao Tse-Tung.  Later reports say he became a Methodist.