God is dead and Satan lives! The year is One, the first year of our Lord! The year is One, God is done!
(Roman Castevet, in July, 1966. From Rosemary’s Baby)
The Latin Mass of the Roman Catholic Church started to be celebrated in Rome at around 200 AD (before that, it was celebrated in Greek), and continued to be the central Roman Rite until the 1960s. A key period in the Satanic history of the Latin Mass was in the year 1666 (which happens to be the only year written with Roman numerals in which each letter is written just one time – MDCLXVI….. that is, the only date since the year 666 – DCLXVI). That year is recognized as the beginning of the Guibourg Black Masses in Paris, which captured the imagination of Satanism for the next 300 years. Finally, in 1966, the Vatican II Council was concluded, the almost 2000 year-old Traditional Latin Mass was abandoned by the Roman Catholic Church, and the Satanic versions of the Latin Black Mass began to emerge from the ruins of the Roman Rite.
| Anno Domini | Anno Satanae |
|---|---|
| I Anno Domini | |
| 1 AD - Christianity begins. | |
| 200 - the Latin Mass starts being used in Rome in about 200 AD. | |
| 1570 - Pope Pius V and the Council of Trent (Concilium Tridentinum) establish the Latin Mass in its fixed form, for all time: the "Tridentine Mass" (Missa Tridentina). This was done to prevent changes from being introduced into the original Latin Mass. | |
| * | * |
| MDCLXVI | 1666 – the Guibourg Masses are conducted in Paris. |
| 1891 - Huysmans' detailed outline of Satanism: La-Bas is published in Paris. | |
| Vatican II (1962-1965) | |
| 1958 - 1963 - Pope John XXIII - Initiates Vatican II - to change the Latin Mass into the "New Order of the Mass" and reform the Roman Catholic Church. | |
| 1962 - October 11 - Vatican II begins and lasts for 4 Sessions, until the end of 1965. | |
| 1963 - 1978 - Paul VI - Implements the decisions of Vatican II, altering the Roman Mass. | |
| 1964 - non-Latin languages are introduced into the Roman Mass. | |
| 1965 - Monday, October 4 - Mass at the Yankee Stadium, New York. | “It was Monday, October 4th, the day of Pope Paul’s visit to the city,…” (Rosemary’s Baby). |
| 1965 - December 8 - Vatican II ends. | |
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| XXX. IV. MCMLXVI. Anno Domini | XXX. IV. I. Anno Satanae |
| 30 April 1966 The Year of the Lord | 30 April 1 The Year of Satan |
 Pope Paul VI |
 Anton LaVey, the "Black Pope" |
| 1966 – January 1: On New Year’s Eve he proposed a toast – “To 1966, The Year One” (Rosemary’s Baby). | |
| 1966 – April 30, Walpurgis Night: Anton LaVey declares the Year I, Anno Satanae, and founds the First Church of Satan. | |
| 1966 – July: “God is dead and Satan lives! The year is One, the first year of our Lord! The year is One, God is done!” (Rosemary’s Baby). | |
| 1966 – August 8: Time Magazine “Is God Dead?” issue. | |
| 1967 | II Anno Satanae |
| 1967 – October - The Novus Ordo Missae is first publicly offered in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican before a Synod of Bishops. | 1967 – The band Coven is formed and begins performing a Black Mass as part of their stage show. |
| 1967 – Rosemary’s Baby book published (by Ira Levin). | |
| 1968 | III Anno Satanae |
| 1968 - The traditional form of the Consecration in the Mass is changed. | 1968 – June 12 - Rosemary’s Baby movie (by Roman Polanski) released. |
| 1968 - September, Friday the 13th - The Church of Satan releases The Satanic Mass album. | |
| 1969 | IV Anno Satanae |
| 1969 - The Novus Ordo Missae is approved and introduced by Paul VI, based on the decisions of Vatican II. | 1969 - Coven releases “Witchcraft” album, containing a recording and the full text of the first Black Mass, the Satanic Mass. |
| 1969 - April 8 - The New Roman Missal is published. | 1969 - December - The Satanic Bible is published. |
| 1969 – Satanis: The Devil’s Mass, is filmed at “the Black House”, Church of Satan, in San Francisco. (Movie released in 1970). | |
| 1970 | V Anno Satanae |
| 1970 – June - Wayne West creates a second Black Mass, the Missa Solemnis, for the Church of Satan. | |
| 1972 | VII Anno Satanae |
| 1972 - A third Black Mass, the Messe Noir, is published in “The Satanic Rituals”. | |
| 1986 | XXI Anno Satanae | 1986 – a fourth Black Mass, completely in Latin, the Missa Niger, is published. |