Location:
Italy
Coordinates:
40.8518, 14.2681
Events at Naples (9)
1567
ID: 4949
January 24, 1567
Birth of St. Francis de Sales in Savoy - future Doctor of the Church and gentle evangelist
ID: 4949
1602
ID: 4950
St. Francis de Sales becomes Bishop of Geneva - converts 70,000 Calvinists through gentleness
ID: 4950
1609
ID: 4951
St. Francis de Sales writes 'Introduction to the Devout Life' - spirituality for laypeople in the world
ID: 4951
1622
ID: 4952
December 28, 1622
Death of St. Francis de Sales - Doctor of the Church, patron of writers and journalists
ID: 4952
1692
ID: 5673
First Italian tomato sauce recipe published - in Antonio Latini's cookbook 'Lo Scalco alla Moderna', marks culinary acceptance
ID: 5673
1696
ID: 4953
September 27, 1696
Birth of St. Alphonsus Liguori near Naples - future Doctor of the Church and moral theologian
ID: 4953
1732
ID: 4954
St. Alphonsus Liguori founds Redemptorists - congregation for evangelizing the poor and abandoned
ID: 4954
1787
ID: 4955
August 1, 1787
Death of St. Alphonsus Liguori - Doctor of the Church, wrote 'Moral Theology' and 'The Glories of Mary'
ID: 4955
1800
ID: 5678
Tomatoes widely accepted as food in southern Europe - Naples becomes center of tomato cuisine, pizza margherita still decades away
ID: 5678