Events Tagged: "love"

Peter Abelard begins teaching Heloise - their tragic love affair will shake Paris, she becomes greatest woman scholar

Fin'amor concept developed - 'refined love' as spiritual improvement through desire, love as source of virtue and courtesy

Troubadours revolutionize concept of love - create idea of romantic love as ennobling force, individual choice over arranged marriage

Death of Eleanor of Castile - Edward I erects twelve Eleanor Crosses marking funeral procession route to Westminster

St. John of the Cross meets St. Teresa - begins Carmelite reform for men - Will suffer imprisonment - 'In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone'

St. John of the Cross imprisoned by own order in Toledo - Composes 'Dark Night of the Soul' in prison - 'Where there is no love, put love, and you will find love'

ST. MARGARET MARY - SACRED HEART REVELATIONS begin at Paray-le-Monial - First apparition - Christ: 'My Divine Heart is so passionately inflamed with love for mankind...It must spread them abroad by your means'

Pope Benedict XVI issues first encyclical 'Deus Caritas Est' on divine and human love