June 24
64: Emperor Nero begins the persecution of Christians.
1519: Birth of Theodore Beza, French-born Swiss theological reformer, who became the leader of the Swiss Calvinists, after John Calvin.
1527: King Gustavus of Sweden conducts the Diet of Wester’s, with the aim of bringing in the Protestant Reformation in Sweden.
1680: Demise of Bishop Isaac Barrow at St. Asaph , who was notable for his charities, including the establishment of a home for poor widows, educating young ministers, and endowing the fund to finance the construction of King William’s College.
1694: The Wissahickon Hermits belonging to the Pietists arrive in Philadelphia.
1817: Execution of Joseph Yuan Zaide, a Chinese convert who became a Catholic priest, in China’s Sichuan Province.
1860: Nikolai, a future missionary to Japan, becomes a monk in Russia.
1885: Consecration of Samuel David Ferguson in New York, the first African-American Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
1900: An imperial decree in China orders the killing of foreigners. Although not primarily aimed at the Christians, the missionaries and Chinese converts had to suffer a lot.
1917: Repose of Orville J. Nave, a U.S. Armed Services chaplain who is best known for his popular Nave’s Topical Bible.
1938: Demise of James C. Sheafe, a learned African-American pastor, who brought African Americans into the Seventh-day Adventist movement, and then founded the independent seventh-day movements.
1941: Opening of the two-day Constitutional Assembly of the Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan, during which the United Church of Christ was formed in Japan.
1968: The relics of St. Mark, which were stolen by Venetians eleven centuries earlier, are brought back to Cairo, Egypt during the time of the Coptic pope Kyrillos VI.
1975: Michael, the Metropolitan of Toledo, and Philip, the Metropolitan of New York, sign an agreement of reunification, forming the united Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
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