A.D. 300 - Prayers
for the dead
A.D. 300 -
Genuflecting (making the sign of the cross)
A.D. 375 - Worship of
saints and angels
A.D. 394 - Mass first
instituted
A.D. 431 - Worship of
Mary begun
A.D. 500 - Priests
began dressing differently than laypeople
A.D. 526 - Extreme
Unction
A.D. 592 - Doctrine
of purgatory introduced
A.D. 600 - Prayers
directed to Mary
A.D. 607 - Boniface
III made first Pope
A.D. 709 - Kissing
the Pope's foot
A.D. 850 - First use
of "holy water"
A.D. 995 -
Canonization of dead saints
A.D. 998 - Fasting on
Fridays and during Lent
A.D. 1079 - Celibacy
of priesthood
A.D. 1090 - Prayer
beads introduced
A.D. 1229 - Bible
forbidden to laypeople
A.D. 1439 - Doctrine
of purgatory decreed
A.D. 1439 - Doctrine
of seven sacraments affirmed
A.D. 1534 - Jesuit
order founded
A.D. 1545 - Catholic
Tradition granted equal authority with Bible
A.D. 1546 -
Apocryphal books put into Bible
A.D. 1854 -
Immaculate conception of Mary
A.D. 1870 -
Infallibility of the Pope declared
