April 6
885 – (Probable date) Passing away of Methodius, who evangelized the Balkans in South Europe with his brother Cyril.
1528 – Demise of Albrecht Durer, German painter, engraver, and designer of woodcuts, known for his religious scenes, especially the popular ‘Praying Hands’.
1579 – The Stroganoffs send a letter with gifts to five brave Cossack brigands of the Russian Army – Iermak Timofeif, John Koltzo, James Mikhailoff, Necetas Pan, and Matthew Meschteriak – inviting them to become warriors of the White Czar. They instead chose to become the staunch defenders of Christian Muscovy.
1593 – Hanging of John Greenwood and Henry Barrow in London, the non-conformists, for opposing the view that the Church of England had biblical authority.
1735 – The first Moravians from Europe, a West Slavic ethnic group and a Protestant Christian denomination,  arrive in America, on the invitation of colonial governor James Oglethorpe.
1779 – Ordination of Henry Alline at Falmouth, Nova Scotia by a Congregational Council. Later he became a successful leader in the Canadian and New England “New Light” revival.
1827 – Demise of Robert Hawker in Plymouth, England, a noted preacher, writer, and compiler of a popular hymn books for children. The most famous of hymns was the doxology “Lord, dismiss us with thy blessing.”
1830 – Birth of James Augustine Healy, the first black Roman Catholic bishop in America, from an Irish planter and a slave on a plantation near Macon, Georgia.
1851 – Henry E. Manning, Anglican priest, joins the Roman Catholic Church. He later became the archbishop of Westminster in 1865 and a cardinal in 1875.
1868 – Brigham Young, Mormon church leader, marries his 27th and last wife; he had 47 children altogether.
1894 – Death of William M. Thomson, a missionary veteran in Syria and author of the book The Land and the Book which illustrated the Bible with photographs of the Middle East; the book became a best seller in the United States and in Britain.
1921 – Healing of a sick woman through Simon Kimbangu in Congo, marking the beginning of the Kimbanguist church.
1933 – Bakht Singh, who had converted to Christianity while voyaging to Canada, arrives in Bombay and begins evangelical work there.
1952 – Jim Elliot, American missionary and Auca Indian martyr, stated in his journal, “Faith makes life so even, gives one such confidence, that the words of men are as wind.”
1956 – Demise of Daniel Gee Ching Wu, an Episcopal priest who had worked among the Chinese Christians of San Francisco.
1966 – Death of influential Swiss theologian Emil Brunner in Zürich, who had reasserted the principles of the Protestant Reformed tradition but at the same time sought dialogue with moderns holding theories of evolution, idealism, liberalism, and scientism.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy:Â www.studylight.org