December 5

The fifth day of December.
==Events==
* 633: Fourth Council of Toledo takes place.
* 1484: Pope Innocent VIII issues the Summis desiderantes, a papal bull that deputizes Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger as inquisitors to root out alleged witchcraft in Germany, and leads to one of the severest witch hunts in European history.
* 1496: King Manuel I of Portugal issues a decree of expulsion of "heretics" from the country.
* 1590: Niccolò Sfondrati elected Pope Gregory XIV.
* 1979: Sonia Johnson is formally excommunicated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for her outspoken criticism of the church concerning the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
==Births==
* 1443: Pope Julius II (d. 1513)
* 1539: Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian (d. 1604)
==Deaths==
* 749: - Saint John of Damascus, theologian
==Feast Days==
* Fourth day of Advent (Western tradition) in 2007.
===Roman Catholicism===
* Saint Abercius
* Saint Sabas
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