A SMALL PORTION OF THE CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE

OF POPERY

A.D. 65. Nero First persecutions of Christians.

123.

Alexander, Bishop of Rome, invented holy water. 135. Bishop Sextus introduced altars.

154. The title of pope first applied to ministers by Heginus.

159. Fonts in churches were first appointed by Pius. 169. Anicetus, of Rome, directed consecration of bishops and shaving heads of the priests.

275. The ninth persecution.

302. The tenth persecution. In Egypt alone 144,000 were put to death, and 700,000

banished.

316. Constantine first exercised the ecclesiastical and

temporal power.

320. Wax candles and lamps were introduced and kept burning in the churches.

325. First general council of Nice, and the Nicene creed was adopted.

380. The application of the word Catholic was adopted.

394. The word mass was adopted.

429. Nestorioras denied the propriety of applying the title "Mother of God" to the Virgin Mary. 461. Paulinus of Nola invented the painting of stories of the Old Testament and of crosses on the walls of the churches.

494. Gelasius, the Roman prelate, claimed the primacy above all bishops.

555. Pelagius poisoned Vigilius that he might be elected in his stead.

591. Gregory adopted the title of Servant to the Servants of God.

594. John, of Constantinople, again asserted his claim to the title of Universal Bishop.

606. Pope Boniface III obtained from the usurper Phocas the ecclesiastical supremacy and de

creed that the appellation of pope should ever after be restricted to the Roman pontiff.

704. Aripert, king of the Lombards, gave the Roman pontiff the Celtian Alps for an ecclesiastical patrimony, the first province over which popes exercised regular temporal sovereignty and which in 709 was exempted from imperial jurisdiction.

829. The Roman priests were now proverbially disorderly, proud, and unclean.

853.

Cardinals were first known in Rome.

854. Popess Joan was head of the pontificate until her death in the midst of an idolatrous procession going to the Lateran.

863. The Pope and Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople, excommunicated each other

881. Pope John was put to death for his intolerable wickedness.

896. Pope Boniface VI was expelled from his office before the end of the first month on account

of his atrocious lewdness.

897. Pope Stephen was a more outrageous monster than Boniface. He was seized and strangled in prison.

925. Pope John began the custom of making boy prelates. He appointed a boy five years of age Prelate of Rheims.

930. The two preceding popes were murdered by the harlot Marozia, daughter of Theodora, that

she might place in the popedom John, her son, of whom Pope Jergius III was father.

964. Pope Leo was caught in adultery and slain upon the spot by the husband.

1045. Pope Benedict was banished from the popedom for his wickedness; Silvester III was also expelled; Gregory VI was elected. They all resided in Rome until a council excluded them. Thus there were three popes living at the same time.

1064. Popes were elected by the cardinals.

1095. Beads to pray by were first invented.

1124. The Archbishop of Lyons was slain at Rome for censuring the beastly wickedness of the papal dignitaries.

1155. Arnold of Brescia, was burnt for exposing the turpitude of the Roman priests.

1211. The order of the Holy Trinity was founded. 1215. The Lateran Council was summoned to crush the Albigenses and to confirm transubstantiation.

1233. The inquisition was established.

1252. The Bible was divided into chapters.

1260. Nearly 100,000 of the Albigenses were massacred by the papists.

1275. The conclave of cardinals was established and the superstitious reverence to the name of Jesus was enacted.

1295. Boniface VIII, it was said, entered the pontificate like a fox, ruled like a wolf, and died like a dog. 1300. Pope Boniface styled himself "Universal Lord, both in all things temporal and spiritual."

1540. The order of Jesuits was founded by Ignatius

Loyola.

1545. The Council of Trent was opened December 13. The sessions continued at intervals for eigh

teen years.

1549. The pope appoints as cardinal a boy whom he had employed as his money keeper.

1572. Gregory XIII. Massacre of St. Bartholomew (August 24), in which from 50,000 to 100,000 French Protestants (Huguenots) were butchered by order of Charles IX. The news excites the most extravagant joy at Rome and a medal is struck commemorating the event.

1584. The Prince of Orange is murdered by Balthazar Gerard at the instigation of the Jesuits, who assure him of a happy immortality as his reward. 1589. Henry III, of France, is murdered by Jacques Clement, a tool of the Jesuits, August 1.

1603. The Jesuits who had been banished from France were permitted to return.

1604. The Jesuits are expelled from England. 1605. Pope Paul V, who was styled " Vice God upon Earth, Monarch of Christendom, and the supporter of Papal Omnipotence," on May 29 sanctions the doctrine of the Jesuit Suarez, that it is right to murder kings who oppose the pontifical power.

1622. Gregory XV canonizes Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, as a saint.

1644. Donna Olympia Maldachini, the pope's paramour, governs church and state for ten years during the pontificate of Innocent X.

1686. An edict is published July 1 declaring every Huguenot minister, native or foreign, punishable with death if found in France.

1764. The Jesuits are expelled from Portugal, and the Society of Jesuits is suppressed in France by order of the king.

1767. Jesuits banished from Spain, and compelled to leave for Italy without an hour's delay.

1768. Jesuits driven from the two Sicilies.

1773. Pope Clement XIV suppressed the Order of Jesuits and dies a year after the date of the

edict (July 31) with every evidence of having been poisoned.

1814. Pius VII restores the Order of the Jesuits by a pontifical edict.

1833. Gregory XVI issues an encyclical letter denouncing liberty of conscience and freedom of the press as pestilential errors.

1837. Upwards of 400 Protestants of Zillerthal, in the Tyrol, are banished because they refuse allegiance to the Pope.

1844. The Pope issues a bull, May 8, against Bible Societies, and denounces them as "works of

the devil."