December 31

335: End of
the Papacy of Sylvester I “who convinced Constantine to prohibit Jews from
living in Jerusalem.”

535:
Byzantine General Belisarius took the city of Syracuse which marks the
completion of the conquest of Sicily. In 536 he would…

December 13

522 BCE: Darius I, the Persian monarch who allowed the Jewish people to
re-build the Temple at Jerusalem strengthened his hold on his kingdom when he
defeated Nebuchadnezzar III in a battle at the Tigris and that at the
Euphrates.

519 BCE…

December 10

1475: Seventy-eight-year-old Italian artist Paolo Uccello
passed away. Like many artists of his time, Uccello produced what today would
be called anti-Semitic art.  Among his
works was “Miracle of the Host”

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December 3

311: Sixty-sixty-year-old Emperor Diocletian passed away.

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1368: Birthdate of Charles VI, the French king who would order the
expulsion of the Jews from his re…

November 30

1215: The Fourth Lateran Council which had been led by
Innocent III came to a close. The Fourth Lateran Council made the first
official use of the term “transubstantiation,” with reference to the
Eucharist (Lord’s Supper). The adoption of …