November 13
354: Birth of St. Augustine of Hippo, the greatest of the Early Latin Church Fathers. His classic works Confessions describes the circumstances leading to his conversion to the Christian faith, and The City of God presents a Christian view of the sacking of Rome by the Visigoths in the year 410.
387: Passing away of Monica, the mother of Augustine of Hippo, in Ostia, Italy.
619: The Second Council of Seville opens, the largest ever held in Spain. Its two major decisions were 1. a ruling that baptism only required a single dipping and 2. that the hymns by authors such as Ambrose, although their texts are not taken directly from Scripture, are permitted in church services.
867: Repose of Pope Nicholas I the Great, who was a strong proponent for the primacy of Roman in the church.
1317: (probable date) Demise of Yaballah III (Rabban Markos from Beijing), who travelled to the west with Bar Sauma, and became a Patriarch of the East Syrian Church.
1564: Pope Pius IV orders his bishops and scholars to subscribe to “Professio Fidei,” the Profession of the Tridentine Faith which was recently formulated by the Council of Trent (1545-63) as the new and final definition of the faith of the Roman Catholic faith.
1606: Johann Gerhard, the most influential 17th-century Lutheran theologian, completes his doctorate in theology at the University of Jena.
1618: The Synod of Dort convened in the Dutch commune of Dordrecht, to discuss the Arminian controversy in relation to the Reformed faith. About 200 Arminian (Remonstrant) ministers were deposed and fifteen were arrested, who were later expelled from the country.
1644: The city of Massachusetts passes a law against Baptists, the “troublers of churches” who were also banished.
1884: Demise of Prince Owusu-Ansah, who had become a Christian while held hostage by the British, and who worked as a Methodist evangelist in Ghana for many years.
1913: Lenin writes to the Russian author Maxim Gorki, “Every religious idea, every idea of God, even flirting with the idea of God, is unutterable vileness….”
1938: Beatification of Francis Xavier Cabrini by Pope Pius XI. Born in Italy, she had gone to America to help the Italian immigrants, founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart and became the first American citizen to reach the process of canonization as a saint..
1962: The name of St. Joseph added to the canon of the Roman Catholic mass, as the first alteration made to this canon since the seventh century.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy: https://studylight.org