FROM THEN TO NOW

Where we’ve been …

Mustard Seed – 33-99 AD Persecution – 100-312 AD Conversion and Councils – 313-499 AD Missionaries and the Emperor – 500-999 AD Crusaders and Scholars – 1000-1299 AD Weak Leaders and Schism – 1300-1499 AD Protestors and Defenders – 1500-1544 AD Catholic Reformation – 1545-1699 AD

Revolutions & Modernism – 1700-1913 AD

Age of Enlightenment and beginnings of Modernism Were theocentric, now becoming

man/reason centered Marian apparitions occur more

frequently Our Lady of Lourdes – 1858

4 years earlier Pope Pius IX proclaimed Immaculate Conception – 1854

1st Vatican Council – 1869-1870

Discussed … papacy

In the world … look at timelines

Important Saints

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton St. John Neumann Korean Martyrs St. Catherine Laboure Miraculous medal

St. John Bosco St. Therese of the Child Jesus St. Maria Goretti

A World at War = 1914-1957 World War I – 1914-1918 World War II – 1939-1945

Rejection of Nazism and push to save the Jews

More Mary = Our Lady of Fatima – 1917 Vatican City State formed – 1929

Saints St. Faustina St. Maximilian Kolbe

World leaders … look at timeline

The New Springtime = 1958-1977 AD

Pope John XXIII ushers in new springtime

2nd Vatican Council – 1962-1965 Opens the doors of the Church

St. Gianna Molla St. Padre Pio St. Josemaria Escriva World leaders … look at timelines Post-modernism

Nothing is the center

The Threshold of Hope = 1978-Present

Starts with Pope John Paul I = 1978 John Paul II = 1978-2005 Theology of the Body – 1979-1984 Assassination attempt – 1981 World Youth Days Fall of Communism – 1991 Catechism of the Catholic Church – 1993 The Great Jubilee – 2000 Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary – 2002 Died in April 2005

Benedict XVI = 2005-present World leaders … look at timelines Saints

Blessed Teresa of Calcutta