June 19
325: Closing of the 30-day long Council of Nicea, the first ecumenical council in the history of the Church, which formulated the Nicene Creed and fixed the method for calculating Easter.
1027: (traditional date) Passing away of Romuald, who decided to become an abbot after he had to witness his father killing a man in a duel; he became the founder of several monasteries in Italy and eventually also of the very strict Order of Camaldoli. His monks rebelled against his strictness and tried to ruin his name with lies; however, he had won such trustworthiness and respect among the people, that even his own father followed his example and became a monk.
1497: Girolamo Savonarola publishes a letter criticizing his recent excommunication, trying to establish that it was fraudulently obtained and arguing that the judgment is invalid.
1566: Birth of James VI of Scotland, who ascended to the English throne as James I, after the death of Elizabeth I in 1603. He is best remembered among Christians for authorizing the publication of the Bible, known as the King James Version (KJV).
1567: Richard Fitz and other separatists are arrested in Plumber’s Hall, London, for holding an unauthorized meeting under guise of a wedding; this das is known as a red-letter day in the formation of the Congregationalist movement.
1625: Arrival of Jean de Brebeuf, a French Jesuit priest and missionary, in Quebec, Canada. He was martyred while serving Indians.
1750: A local council in Massachusetts recommends a distancing of the Northampton church from Jonathan Edwards. Edwards was dismissed three days later.
1787: Demise of John Brown in Haddington, a Scottish pastor, well known as the author of the Self-Interpreting Bible: a Bible with many marginal notes and comparison of one passage to another.
1902: Repose of Lord Acton in Tegernsee, Bavaria, Germany, the English Catholic historian who became famous for his dictum: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
1910: Observation of Father’s Day for the first time, under sponsorship of the Spokane Ministerial Association and the YMCA In Spokane, Washington.
1977: Canonization of John Nepomucene Neumann, the first American-born male saint, by pope Paul VI. It was Neumann who developed the parochial school system, during his episcopacy as the fourth Bishop of the Philadelphia Diocese.
1987: The Supreme Court in the US strikes down a Louisiana law requiring public schools to teach creationism if they taught evolutionism.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy:Â www.studylight.org