June 4
308: Quirinus, bishop of Siscia, is drowned in a river in the region of present Poland, after being subjected to imprisonment, torture, and mockery and he preaches until he sinks.
1133: Lothaire II of Saxony is crowned emperor by Pope Innocent II who was just established on the papal throne by a show of armed force by Lothaire.
1571: Doctor Sigismondo Arquer is thrown into the flames for his Protestant beliefs in Toledo, Spain.
1639: The new ‘Fundamental Orders of New Haven’ – an extraordinary example of the religiously-inspired formation of a government, proposed by Rev John Davenport – are adopted.
1663: Demise of Archbishop William Juxon at St John’s, Oxford. As a priest he had stood with King Charles I of England at his execution on accusation of treason, tyranny and murder; Juxon believed that the king was innocent; Charles II thanked him for this by appointing him the Archbishop of Canterbury after the Restoration.
1775: John Carmichael of Brandywine, Pennsylvania, defends ‘war in self-defence’ in a sermon which later helped form American opinion at the time of its Revolutionary War.
1873: Birth of Charles F. Parham, pioneer of American charismatic church. He founded a Bible training school in Topeka, Kansas in 1898, where the modern Pentecostal movement began in 1901.
1878: Birth of Frank N. Buchman, American exponent of the social gospel and the founder of the First Century Christian Movement (1921), the Oxford Group (1929) and the Moral Re-Armament Movement (1938).
1883: Death of the “Righteous Vera,” a 12 year old girl who had begun early to seek the Lord and practice asceticism with Lyubov, her twin sister. Unfortunately, Lyubov too died after four days. They were on a visit to the Russian monastery at Optina.
1900: Birth of Nelson Glueck, an American Jewish archaeologist. As the Director of the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem between 1932 and 1947, he explored and chronicled over 1,000 ancient sites in Palestine and the Near-East.
1931: Ordination and Installation of Carl McIntire at the Chelsea Presbyterian Church in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He later became famous as a radio broadcaster who delivered fundamentalist and anti-Communist views.
1948: The first missionary radio station of the Philippines , built in Manila by the Far-East Broadcasting Company (FEBC), goes on  air for the first time.
1985: The Supreme Court of the United States suspends a law in Alabama which had made a moment of silence (i.e.: prayer) in public schools mandatory.
1995: Pope John Paul II beatifies Father Damien at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Brussels; St. Damien had given his life for outcasts suffering leprosy in Hawaii.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
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