Final Dates Flashcards
(7 cards)
1
Q
When was Boethius executed (when he got on the wrong side of the Arian King Theodoric)?
A
524
2
Q
When did St. Francis hear Christ tell him, “Rebuild my Church!” (while praying before the cross in San Damiano)?
A
1205
3
Q
What year did both St. Thomas Aquinas (Dominican monk) and St. Bonaventure (Franciscan) die?
A
1274
4
Q
When did Dante show the Inferno (his character was 35)?
A
1300
5
Q
When did Julian of Norwich (first writer in English known to be a woman) have her 16 “showings”?
A
May 8 & 9, 1373
6
Q
When did St. Catherine of Siena go to Avignon (to persuade Pope Gregory XI to return to Rome - which he did the next year)?
A
1376
7
Q
When did Geoffrey Chaucer (“father of English poetry”) die (marking end of the Middle Ages)?
A
1400
