June 25
253: St. Lucius I becomes the bishop of Rome and thus Pope, after the death of St. Cornelius, who died in exile.
592: Passing away of Moluag, an Irish missionary, also known as Lugaidh, who had introduced Christianity to the Island of Lismore and parts of north-eastern Scotland.
1115: St. Bernard starts a monastery in Clairvaux, France, which later became a strategic centre for the Cistercians, a religious order from Europe.
1142: Demise of William of Vercelli, abbot and the founder of the congregation of Monte Vergine, also known as Williamites.
1439: The Council of Basel proclaims that it has deposed Pope Eugenius, because he is a simoniac, perjurer, incorrigible, schismatic, heretical, and errant in faith.
1530: The Augsburg Confession is presented to Emperor Charles V to convince him of the position and beliefs of Lutherans.
1580: Publication of the ‘Book of Concord’ in German language, which contained all the official confessions of the Lutheran Church.
1600: Repose of David Chytraeus, who collaborated in writing the Lutheran Church’s Formula of Concord.
1684: Passing away of Robert Leighton, the archbishop of Glasgow, who adorned the doctrine of God his saviour by a holy life and by the meek and loving spirit, in an age of religious strife. His writings witness to his holiness.
1744: The first Methodist conference organised in London as a new society within Anglicanism. It imposed strict disciplines upon its members.
1784: A fire destroys the Byzantine chapel named Bogdan Serai, used by Christian envoys to the Turkish Porte.
1862: Ludwig Nommensen lands on the island of Sumatra as a missionary.
1865: J. Hudson Taylor, English pioneer missionary, founds the China Inland Mission. Later its name was changed to Overseas Missionary Fellowship (OMF) International.
1938: Pope Pius XI entrusts John LaFarge, an American anti-racist priest, with the duty of drafting an encyclical against racism because of the growing Aryanism of Germany.
1957: Formation of the United Church of Christ (UCC) during a convention in Cleveland, Ohio through  a merger of the Congregational Christian Church and the Evangelical and Reformed Church.
1962: The Supreme court in the US bans official prayers in public schools, declaring such prayers unconstitutional due to the violation of the separation of church and state.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy:Â www.studylight.org