December 5
532: Repose of St. Sabas, a hermit and the leader of an early monastic movement. He travelled widely preaching against heresy and founded a monastery in Palestine (Mar Saba) which exists even now.
1484: Pope Innocent VIII orders inquisition for the whole of Europe through his famous “Witch Bull.”
1525: Hans Schlaffer, an Anabaptist leader, who opposed infant baptism is arrested in Austria. Subsequently he was burned alive.
1804: Wilhelm Tobias Ringeltaube, a Missionary from the London Missionary Society, lands at Tranquebar, India. He became very successful and later moved on to Ceylon.
1837: Hector Berlioz’s Requiem performed in public for the first time in a church in Paris.
1848: Repose of Joseph Mohr, the Austrian Roman Catholic parish priest who composed the most famous Christmas hymn, “Stille Nacht” (“Silent Night”) in 1818.
1903: James C. Sheafe, an African American pastor, founds a new congregation – Â the People’s SDA [Seventh-day Adventist] Church – in Washington, DC, with 51 members.
1988: A federal grand jury charges Televangelist Jim Bakker with mail fraud (for selling off thousands of lifetime memberships); he was convicted the following year and sentenced to prison.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
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