JUNE 12
816:
Leo III, the Pope whose aggressive plan to crown Charlemagne gave the Jews of
the Rhineland a comparatively benign ruler, passed away today.
1240:
Nicholas Donin, a renegade Jew under the patronage of Louis IX, convinced Pope Gregory
IX …
JUNE 6
1191: As the
Christians seek to retake Jerusalem King Richard the Lionhearted arrived at
Tyre.
1142: Today,
during the second Siege of Coria, Emperor Alonso VII of Leon and Castille
“granted the village of Fradejas to the Diocese of Zamora” t…
JUNE 5
70: Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle
wall of Jerusalem.
1191 After conquering Cyprus, Richard the Lionheart
and his Crusaders set sail for “the Holy Land.” This crusading left England in
the control of Prince John who, amongst oth…
June 2
876 BCE (28 Iyar 2884): This is the traditional date of
death of Samuel, prophet and priest (born 2832).
455: The Vandals entered Rome and plundered the
city. Among the treasures they took with them were the spoils of the
Second T…
May 30
70: During the
Siege of Jerusalem, Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of
Jerusalem. The Jewish defenders retreat to the First Wall. The Romans build a
circumvallation, cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometers.
1096: In …
May 29
363: A good
day for the Romans and bad day for the Jews. Roman Emperor Julian defeats the
Sassanid army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Sassanid
capital, but is impossible to conquer it. But Julian is killed at the end of
the…
On Friday afternoon, just before we ate our last meal before Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, I was doing something that I rarely do: watching Christian TV. Don’t get me wrong; I love the Word of God, but I have come to the place where I can rarely get through a Christian television program […]
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