On 25 September 1392, Sergius of Radonezh died at the monastery that had grown from his small forest hermitage and helped inspire a major monastic renewal.
On 24 September 787, bishops gathered at Nicaea to address the iconoclast controversy after soldiers had broken up an earlier attempt to hold the council.
Archaeologists beneath Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre have found evidence of ancient cultivated ground alongside rock-cut tombs.
On 23 September 1122, the Concordat of Worms ended the main phase of a decades-long struggle over who held authority to appoint bishops and abbots.
On 22 September 1734, Schwenkfelder Christians reached Philadelphia after fleeing religious persecution in Europe and crossing the Atlantic.
On 21 September 1839, Bishop Laurent Imbert and missionaries Pierre Maubant and Jacques Chastan were executed in Korea after surrendering during persecution.