Events Tagged: "curse"

Biblical wine references multiply - Noah's vineyard and drunkenness, wine as blessing and curse, central to Hebrew culture

Gold of Tolosa discovered - Romans loot 100,000 pounds gold and 110,000 pounds silver from Celtic temples, treasure mysteriously vanishes

Battle of Arausio disaster linked to Tolosa gold - Consul Caepio who stole temple gold loses 80,000 Romans to Cimbri, worst defeat since Cannae

Eighteen Benedictions revised - Birkat ha-Minim curse added specifically targeting Jewish Christians (Nazarenes) and heretics

Jacques de Molay burned at stake - last Templar Grand Master curses king and pope

Jacques de Molay burned at stake - last Templar Grand Master curses Philip IV and Pope from flames

Death of Philip IV - dies of stroke months after Molay's curse, leaves three sons, Louis X succeeds

Lambton Worm defeated - John Lambton kills dragon after returning from Crusades, family cursed for nine generations (Durham records)

Luther dies cursing - 'Pestis eram vivus, moriens tua mors ero, Papa' (Living, I was your plague, O Pope; dying, I shall be your death)