[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History April 8

STEVE K ROURKE SROURKE at prodigy.net
Sun Apr 7 20:41:07 PDT 2002


Born:
563 -BC- Gautama Buddha (as celebrated in Japan-Kambutsue)
1460 Ponce de Le¢n searched for fountain of youth, found Florida
1533 Claudio Merulo organist/composer

Deaths:
217 Caracalla [Marcus Aureiius Antoniius], Roman emperor, dies
1143 John II Byzantine emperor, dies in an accident

Other Events:
1513 Ponce de Le¢n discovers Florida
1546 At its fourth session, the Council of Trent adopted Jerome's "Latin
Vulgate" as the official Bible of the Roman Catholic Church. (Included in
the Vulgate O.T. were the 15 apocryphal books which Protestants reject in
their biblical canon.)





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