Events Tagged: "fire"

Elijah's contest on Mount Carmel - fire from heaven consumes sacrifice, 450 prophets of Baal killed

Fiery furnace - Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego refuse to worship golden image, delivered from fire

Sibylline Books destroyed in fire - Temple of Jupiter burns, books lost, Romans send envoys across Mediterranean to collect replacement prophecies

Great Fire of Rome - Nero blamed, then blames Christians, first imperial persecution

Palladium saved from Great Fire - Vestals rescue sacred objects including Palladium from Temple of Vesta during Nero's fire

St. Mark's Basilica burns - popular uprising against Doge Pietro IV Candiano, palace and church destroyed in fire

St. Catherine: Begins tending plague victims and prisoners - Witnesses report light emanating from her face during prayer - 'Be who God meant you to be and you will set the whole world on fire!'

Fire at Sainte-Chapelle, Chambéry - Shroud survives - Silver reliquary melts, burns through folded cloth - Poor Clare nuns repair with patches

St. Philip Neri - Mystical experience in San Sebastiano catacombs - Globe of fire enters mouth, lodges in chest - Christ: 'I have chosen you to be the apostle of My love in Rome' - Physical exam reveals enlarged heart

Prussian army adopts flexible company column tactics - independent unit maneuver replaces rigid line formations, emphasizing firepower