February 28
468: (on Feb. 29) Death of Pope St. Hilary, who is known as the guardian of church unity.
870: Conclusion of the Fourth Constantinople Council, under Pope Adrian II in the West and Emperor Basil I in the East. It condemned iconoclasm, and was the last ecumenical council held in the Eastern Mediterranean area.
1546: George Wishart, a Scottish reformer, is arrested and will be burned to death as a heretic the next day, on the order of the authorities from the catholic church.
1638: Signing of Scotland’s national covenant, giving rise to the Covenanter Movement among Scottish Presbyterians, which insists that Christ, not the king of England, is the head of the church. Eighteen thousand were martyred for accepting this position.
1751: Murder of Kyranna of Thessalonica, a beautiful Christian woman, after seven days of torture, while she refused to convert to Islam and to marry an Islamic suitor.
1759: Pope Clement XIII grants permission for translating the Bible into the languages of the Roman Catholic states.
1784: English churchman John Wesley, formally charters a renewal movement within Anglicanism which afterwards came to be known as Wesleyan Methodism.
1873: The Society of Mary, founded in 1816 and which seeks to combine the work of education with foreign missions, is officially recognized by Pope Pius IX.
1944: Nazi soldiers arrest Corrie Ten Boom and her family in Harlaam for shielding Jews, following which her father and a sister have die in concentration camps. Corrie was released because of a clerical error and became an international speaker for Christianity, and authored the book The Hiding Place, which also became the subject of a movie later.
1947: Peter Marshall, U.S. Senate Chaplain, prayed to God, “Let not the past ever be so dear to us as to set a limit to the future. Give us the courage to change our minds when that is needed.”
1994: Joel Gamonal from Peru dedicates his life to Christ, after listening to a sermon on Proverbs 6, “These six things the Lord hates,” which left him miserable. Later he became a church planter with the Heart Cry mission.
2006: Death of Yustus Ruhindi, a bishop from Uganda in the Anglican Church, whose emphasis was on teaching people to live godly lives and to make the most of their resources, greatly increasing the prosperity of the regions where he taught.
2007: Members of the fanatic Hindu group Bajrang Dal attack The Gospel for Asia Bible School in Kutabaga, India, injuring five Christians seriously.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy: www.studylight.org