Portal:Catholicism/Selected anniversaries/May 4
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[edit] May 4
- 1256 - Augustinian monastic order constituted at Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV (pictured) issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae
- 1415 - Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus were condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance.
- 1493 - Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Demarcation Line.
- 2001 - Pope John Paul II follows Saint Paul's footsteps across the Mediterranean, from Greece to Syria to Malta.
