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The twenty-fifth day of May.
 * 1085. Death of Pope Gregory VII.
 * 1521. Edict of Worms declares Martin Luther to be a heretic and outlaw.
 * 1914. Giacomo della Chiesa (later Pope Benedict XV becomes a cardinal.
 * 1963. Pope John XXIII suffers a stomach hemorrhage and remains hospitalized until his death on June 3.
 * 1995. Pope John Paul II publishes the encyclical Ut Unum Sint (That they may be one), which affirms the Papal commitment to ecumenism.
 * Feast of the Third Finding of the Head of St. John the Forerunner (Eastern Orthodox)