Commemorations

in a.d. 2008

DateAscendingCommemorationTypeAnniversary
01.03Final Apparition of Our Lady of Beauraing (1933)Marian Apparition75 years
01.15First Apparition of Our Lady of Banneux (1933)Marian Apparition75 years
01.25Promulgation of Canon Law Codex Iuris Canonici (1983)Papal Document25 years
02.01Disintegration of Space Shuttle Columbia (2003)World Event5 years
02.11First Apparition of Our Lady of Lourdes (1858)Marian Apparition150 years
02.11Establishment of the Catholic hierarchy in Russia (2002)Church Event6 years
02.21Creation of Jorge Bergoglio as Cardinal (2001)Pope7 years
02.23Beginning of the Darfur Genocide (2003)World Event5 years
03.02Final Apparition of Our Lady of Banneux (1933)Marian Apparition75 years
04.02Death of Pope John Paul II (2005)Pope3 years
04.04Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (1968)World Event40 years
04.10Signing of the Good Friday Agreement of Northern Ireland (1998)World Event10 years
04.11Founding of the first diocese in North America (1658)Church Event350 years
04.11Encyclical Pacem in terris (1963)Papal Document45 years
04.17Encyclical Ecclesia de Eucharistia (2003)Papal Document5 years
04.19Election of Pope Benedict XVI (2005)Pope3 years
04.24Installation of Pope Benedict XVI (2005)Pope3 years
05.03Death of Pope Benedict XIV (1758)Pope250 years
05.12May 1998 anti-Chinese riots of Indonesia (1998)World Event10 years
05.14Establishment of the State of Israel (1948)World Event60 years
05.27Letter to the Church of China (2007)Papal Document1 year
06.21Election of Pope Paul VI (1963)Pope45 years
06.22Karmni Grima's Call by Our Lady of Ta' Pinu (1883)Marian Apparition125 years
06.29Establishment of the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office and the Sacred Congregation of Religious (1908)Church Event100 years
06.30Illicit episcopal consecration by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (1988)Church Event20 years
07.02Motu Proprio Ecclesia Dei (1988)Papal Document20 years
07.06Election of Pope Clement XIII (1758)Pope250 years
07.06First Apparition of Our Lady of Akita (1973)Marian Apparition35 years
07.07Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum (2007)Papal Document1 year
07.16Final Apparition of Our Lady of Lourdes (1858)Marian Apparition150 years
07.25Encyclical Humanæ vitæ (1968)Papal Document40 years
08.05Miraculous snowfall at St. Mary Major Basilica (358)Church Event1650 years
08.06Encyclical Veritatis splendor (1993)Papal Document15 years
08.26Election of Pope John Paul I (1978)Pope30 years
09.14Encyclical Fides et ratio (1998)Papal Document10 years
09.28Episcopal consecration of Pope John Paul II (1958)Pope50 years
09.28Death of Pope John Paul I (1978)Pope30 years
10.09Death of Pope Pius XII (1958)Pope50 years
10.16Apparition of St. Michael to Bishop Aubert d’Avranches to build Mont Saint-Michel (708)Church Event1300 years
10.16Election of Pope John Paul II (1978)Pope30 years
10.22Founding of the Vatican Television Centre (1983)Church Event25 years
10.28Independence of Czechoslovakia (1918)World Event90 years
10.28Election of Pope John XXIII (1958)Pope50 years
11.11End of World War I (1918)World Event90 years
11.12Great Leonid Meteor Shower (1833)World Event175 years
12.04Conciliar Constitution Sacrosanctum concilium (1963)Conciliar Document45 years
12.04Conciliar Decree Inter mirifica (1963)Conciliar Document45 years
12.10Signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)World Event60 years
12.27Episcopal consecration of Pope John Paul I (1958)Pope50 years

See Also

Celebrations in 2008

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