Source: Good News Network
On this day 670 years ago, Pope Clement VI issued a Catholic decree protecting Jews during the Black Death. Popular opinion blamed the Jews for the plague, and massacres erupted throughout Europe. Pope Clement condemned the violence and said those who blamed the plague on the Jews had been “seduced by a liar”.
He urged clergymen to take action to protect the innocent. (1348)MORE Good News on this Day:
- Louis Pasteur, the French chemist-microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, fermentation and pasteurization, successfully tested his breakthrough rabies vaccine on a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog (1885)
- The current Tibetan Buddhist monk known as the Dalai Lama, 81, was born in Taktser, China (1935)
- Althea Gibson won a Wimbledon championship, the first black athlete to do so (1957)
- Garrison Keillor’s weekly LIVE radio show A Prairie Home Companion first aired from a theater in St….
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