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Muhammed enters Mecca
Hild was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman and nun. Her reputation as abbess was so great that Whitby was chosen for the Synod in AD 664. An enthusiast for learning, she encouraged Caedmon, the first vernacular English poet.
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00-636--Isidore, Bishop of Seville. His writings provide invaluable
and encyclopedic knowledge for the Middle Ages. He is known for important
efforts to resist barbarism and heresy in Spain, found schools and convents
and evangelize Jews.
• 609--Pagan pantheon in Rome consecrated as church of St. Maria
Rotunda. As part of the dedication, Pope Boniface (609-610) confirmed
All Saints' Day.
• Organs begin to be used in churches. Church bells are used to
call people to worship and to give the hours to the monks in the monasteries.
• Learning flourishes in Anglo-Saxon monasteries
• 648--Emperor Constans II issues "The Typos" limiting
Christian teachings to that defined in first five ecumenical councils.
Pope Martin I (d. 655) refuses to sign Typos. Martin is seized and banished
to Crimea and dies. He is last pope to be venerated as a martyr.
• 664--After conflict between the original Celtic church and the
Roman missionaries, England adopts the Roman Catholic faith at the Synod
of Whitby.
• Mohammed (c. 570-629) begins the religion of Islam, which begins
to supplant Christianity across the Middle East and North Africa.
• 638--Islamic capture of Jerusalem
• 690--Two Anglo-Saxon bishops, Kilian and Willibrord, carry on
extensive evangelistic mission on the continent among the Franks.
AD 700 (TWENTY-TWO GENERATIONS AFTER CHRIST) |
Percent Christian: 23.8% |
Breakdown: 55% nonwhite, 45% white |
Evangelization: 35% of world |
Scriptures: 14 languages |
Total martyrs since AD 33: 3,000,000 (0.4
% of all Christians ever; recent rate 1,000 per year) |
Source: David Barrett. |
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