November 15
655: King Oswy of Northumbria in England brings his daughter of the influential abbess Hild (aka Hilda) of Whitby to train her. Whitby monastery became the venue for the Synod of Whitby in 664,which was also greatly supported by the king.
1621: Pope Gregory XV prescribes through his bull “Aeterni Patris” that only three modes of papal election are to be allowed in the future: scrutiny, compromise, and quasi-inspiration. A later bull “Decet Romanum Pontificem” made the ceremonial which regulates these three modes of election in every detail clear.
1630: Passing away of Johann Kepler, the Lutheran astronomer who had discovered the laws of planetary motion. Many of his arguments for the unity of religion and science were often attributed to Galileo.
1670: Demise of Jan Amos Comenius, an influential author, educator, and the leader of the persecuted and exiled Moravians, an ethnic group from the Moravia region in the Czech Republic.
1794: Death of Orthodox leader Paissy Velichkovsky, notable for having translated large numbers of Greek spiritual texts into Slavonic. He revived monasticism in Moldavia.
1836: Repose of the Russian Orthodox monk Herman, one of ten monks sent to open a mission at Kodiak, Alaska. He later became the mission’s steward, and became notable for his gentle disposition and his attempts to protect the native population.
1848: Count Pellegrino Rossi, the premier of Pope Pius IX, stabbed by an assassin in the neck, killing him, for the slow pace in introducing democratic reforms into the papal states.
1878: Demise of Jane Montgomery Campbell, who translated hymns from German into English, including “Silent Night,” “We Plow the Fields,” and others.
1885: Mwanga, the ruler of Buganda (now part of Uganda), beheads the recent Anglican convert and member of the royal family Joseph Mukasa, for opposing the killing of the Anglican missionary bishop James Hannington and his colleagues. The martyrs of Uganda were canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1964.
1957: Patriarch Ignatius Yacoub III officially establishes the Archdiocese of the Syrian Orthodox Church in the U.S. and Canada, with Archbishop Mar Athanasius Yeshue Samuel, the former Syrian Orthodox metropolitan of Jerusalem, as its primate.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy: https://studylight.org