November 12
1035: Passing away of Canute the Great of Denmark, formerly a ruthless king, but who considered himself a Christian and restored churches and monasteries throughout his kingdom and built several new ones.
1459: Founding of the University of Basel, Switzerland.
1660: John Bunyan arrested for unlicensed preaching and sent to prison. He penned Pilgrim’s Progress and Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners. The latter is considered the greatest Puritan spiritual autobiography.
1701: The Carolina Assembly passes a Vestry Act by which the Church of England was declared the official religion of the Carolina Colony. But after strong opposition by Quakers and other resident Non-conformists, the legislation had to be revoked by the proprietors of the colony after two years.
1879: Amanda Smith, an African-American evangelist, arrives in Bombay, India.
1886: Death of Huang Guangcai in Shanghai, the first Chinese deacon and the first Chinese clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church in China.
1899: Dwight Lyman Moody, American evangelist begins his last evangelistic campaign in Kansas City, Missouri.
1918: Burial of two Orthodox monks Callistus and Jacinthes, who were executed by the Bolsheviks two weeks before for refusing to renounce Christ, at the church of St. Neophytus in the Province of Perm.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy: https://studylight.org