♂ James Shelton

1580 - 1668

James Shelton
Spouse
Anne Hebert
Anne Hebert
1588 - 1650
Children
 

Timeline

1605


Age: 25y
1605 • The Priory of St. Gregory's is founded at Douai, Flanders, at this time in the Spanish Netherlands, by its first prior, John Roberts, and other exiles, thus becoming the first English Benedictine house to renew conventual life after the English Reformation. More than two centuries later the community will establish Downside Abbey back in England.

1668


May 20
Age: 88y
1668 • Emperor Yohannes I of Ethiopia convenes a church council in Gondar, which decides to expel all Roman Catholics in Ethiopia.

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