August 6
258: According to tradition St. Sixtus II, the Bishop of Rome, is arrested while holding a service in a cemetery without permission and executed sitting in his own chair, like many other deacons who were killed by the soldiers of emperor Valerian that same day.
1187: Saladin captures Beirut from the Crusaders.
1221: Demise of St. Dominic, the founder of the Dominican order. He once offered himself as a slave to a Moor in exchange for the son of a widow.
1651: Birth of Francois Fanelon, a French priest and scholar. His  book “Christian Perfection defended mystical spirituality convincingly; but the book brought him disfavor from the pope after some time.
1727: French Ursuline nuns arrive at New Orleans; they set up the first Catholic charitable institution of America, including an orphanage, a girl’s school and a hospital.
1774: English religious leader Ann Lee (1736-1784) and the followers of her sect called the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Coming arrive in America; they were known as the “Shakers” in the rest of the world.
1801: The Great Religious Revival of the American West is founded during a Presbyterian camp meeting in Cane Ridge, Kentucky.
1821: Birth of Edward H. Plumptre, an Anglican theologian and a member of the Old Testament committee for the 1881 English Revised Version of the Bible.
1866: Death of John Mason Neale, a hymnologist and a hymn-writer, best known for the Christmas carols “Good Christian Men, Rejoice” and “Good King Wenceslas.”
1881: Repose of James Springer White, an early leader of the Seventh-day Adventists who also served three times as the president of their General Conference.
1920: An extensive funeral service held for the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church Bishop L. H. Holsey, who had also been a great builder and orator in the denomination.
1930: Tikhon Fyodorovich Yeroshkin, an Orthodox priest serving in the Bulayev region of Kazakhstan, is sentenced to death by the Communists; the sentence was executed soon.
1984: Parts of Liberation Theology condemned by the Vatican.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy:Â www.studylight.org