EVENTS
1570: Queen
Elizabeth I Excommunicated
When the staunch reformer and persecutor of heretics Pope
Pius V excommunicated Elizabeth and declared her a usurper,
religious tension mounted in largely Protestant England, and English
Catholics came under more frequent suspicion.
WHO DIED
777: Saint Walburga
Due to the sea miraculously calming when she prayed on a
storm-tossed ship, Walburga
is a patronness of sailors and is invoked against storms and
hydrophobia.
1547: Vittoria Colonna
Although Vittoria
Colonna was a fairly well-known and respected poet in her
lifetime, today she is perhaps best known for her friendship with
Michelangelo,
