November 10
461: Passing away of Pope Leo I, who convinced Hun leader Attila, who had invaded Rome, to return. He also rebuilt Rome after it was ruined by Vandals under Genseric, whom he could stop from setting the city on fire and from harming its inhabitants . He is considered the founder of the medieval papacy.
852: Caliph Ja’far al Mutawakkil executes Constantine, the King of Georgia, for refusing to embrace Islam. The Turks used this also to intimidate other Christian believers.
1766: Queen’s College chartered in New Brunswick, New Jersey, under the Dutch Reformed Church, to provide education in theology and for preparing the young generation for a good future. The college is now known as Rutgers University.
1770: French philosopher Voltaire gives his famous quote, “If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.”
1871: Henry M. Stanley, the foreign correspondent to the “New York Herald” succeeds in locating Scottish missionary David Livingstone in Ujiji, Central Africa, ending seven months of search.
1907: Baptism of Mok Lai Chi, the founder of China’s first independent Pentecostal church and of its first Pentecostal newspaper, “Pentecostal Truths.” He was also engaged in charitable works.
1977: Pope Paul VI brings an end to the automatic excommunication imposed on divorced American Catholics who remarried, imposed by the Plenary Council of American Bishops in 1884.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy: https://studylight.org