August 13
662: Demise of St. Maximus the Confessor, a vigorous opponent of Monothelitism (the heretical view that Christ had a divine, but no human, will), who was dreadfully persecuted and humiliated for the same.
1587: Manteo from Roanoke (Virginia) becomes the first American Indian to be converted to Protestantism; he was later baptized into the Church of England.
1682: The first Welsh immigrants to the American colonies – mostly Quakers – arrive in Pennsylvania. They settled down near modern Philadelphia.
1727: Count Nikolaus Ludwig Graf von Zinzendorf und Pottendorf, a religious reformer, organizes a group of Bohemian Protestant refugees into the first Moravian community of “Unitas Fratrum” (united brotherhood), in the German village of Herrnhut.
1783: Passing away of Tikhon of Zadonsk, a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, notable for his spiritual writings which emphasized love and forgiveness.
1834: Priestly ordination of Martin John Spalding in Rome. He became the bishop of Louisville, Kentucky, and worked tirelessly to expand the Roman Catholic Church, and founded the American College at Louvain.
1843: Ganga Narayan Sil, a learned convert from Hinduism, who had preached in streets and in chapels and won Hindus and Muslims to Christ, preaches his final sermon.
1861: James Stewart arrives in Cape Town, South Africa as a missionary. He became the founder of Lovedale Center.
1919: Birth of Rex Humbard, pioneer radio and television evangelist, who established the Cathedral of Tomorrow in Akron, Ohio in 1958 and based his television ministry there.
2009: The Guardian publishes reports about the accusations of a Brazilian prosecutor against Edir Macedo and ten associate leaders of the Universal Kingdom of God church, of siphoning charitable contributions in billions of dollars for personal expenses.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy:Â www.studylight.org