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While they (Catholics) may not have witnessed it, they certainly heard about it the next day!!

They had time machines? There were no Catholics until the 4th century.

Only Christians until then.

They were then and are now the catholic--universal--church, made up of all Christians. (That is the body of Christ spoken about in the Christian Bible.)

Christians are those that have a personal born again relationship with Jesus.

As scripture proclaims, He is in us, and we are in Him.

4th century? The term "catholic" is derived from the Greek word καθολικός (katholikos) meaning "universal" and was first used to describe the Church in 107 AD in the Letter to the Smyrnaeans that Ignatius of Antioch wrote to the Christians in Smyrna (present day Turkey) where he wrote See that you all follow the bishop, even as Jesus Christ does the Father, and the presbytery as you would the apostles; and reverence the deacons, as being the institution of God. Let no man do anything connected with the Church without the bishop. Let that be deemed a proper Eucharist, which is [administered] either by the bishop, or by one to whom he has entrusted it. Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude [of the people] also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church. It is not lawful without the bishop either to baptize or to celebrate a love-feast; but whatsoever he shall approve of, that is also pleasing to God, so that everything that is done may be secure and valid.