November 3
753: Demise of St. Pirminius, the first abbot of the Benedictine monastery at Reichenau (in today’s Germany), who won an enduring fame for his work Scarapsus, the earliest known writing to contain the Apostles’ Creed in its present form.
1523: Simeon Stumpf, who had- in company with Conrad Grebel – called for the complete abolition of the mass – is suspended from his parish in Zurich and was exiled the following month.
1631: John Eliot, an English clergyman, arrives in America, at Boston at the age of 27. He became the first Protestant minister to evangelize the American Indian.
1784: Thomas Coke, English clergyman, arrives at New York City in America as he was just 37. He became the first Methodist bishop to come to the New World.
1805: The statue of King William III vandalised in Dublin. Catholics hated the statue because William had secured Ireland for Protestantism, and by Protestant students because the rump of its horse faced their university. The statue was blown up in 1928.
1818: Pliny Fisk, who was ordained by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, set sail for Palestine and became the first American missionary to journey to the Near East.
1925: The Pentecostal Ministerial Alliance organized at St. Louis, MO, which became the forerunner of the Pentecostal Church, Inc. established in 1932.
1929: Alexander Vasilyevich Nikulin, an Orthodox priest serving in the village of Bolshaya Sosnova, arrested “for anti-Soviet agitation.” He was sentenced to three years in the prison camps. He engaged in secret ministry after his release, in spite of a warrant for arrest.
1960: Lutheran bishops published a document “The Christian in the DNR” to help Lutherans learn how to live under communism with obedience but remaining true to their consciences.
1970: Demise of Charles Chidongo Chinula, a pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Malawi, who had translated the famous book Pilgrim’s Progress into the Tumbuka language.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy: https://studylight.org