August 22
394: The Relics of St. Thomas are officially installed at the Basilica of St. Thomas the Apostle in Edessa. 565 Celtic missionary and abbot Columba is said to have confronted an evil creature at Loch Ness.
1433: Paul Craw (Pavel Kravar), a Bohemian Hussite (a follower of the Bohemian religious reformer Jan Hus), is burned to death in Scotland, the first martyr in that nation.
1532: [or August 23rd] Passing away of William Warham at Canterbury, Kent, England, the last Catholic archbishop of Canterbury under King Henry VIII.
1555: Jeanne D’Albret, the Queen of Navarre, calls for a conference of the persecuted Huguenot ministers.
1670: The English-born colonial missionary John Eliot, founds an Indian church at Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts.
1751: Isaac Backus is re-baptized! Later he became a great Baptist leader of New England.
1752: Demise of William Whiston in Lyndon, Rutland, England, a priest in the Church of England, who later became a follower of Arian. English-speaking Christians cherish him for having translated the works of Josephus into English.
1773: Repose of Baron George Lyttelton at Hayley, England, the author of the Dialogues of the Dead, and of the Observations on the Conversion and Apostleship of St. Paul. He considered Paul’s conversion the utmost proof for the fact that Christianity was a divine revelation.
1800: Birth of Edward B. Pusey, an English biblical scholar, a Tractarian spokesman and a devoted church leader who worked to establish religious orders in Anglicanism; he founded the first Anglican sisterhood in 1845.
1822: Repose of Krishna Pal, an Indian convert and a hymn-writer.
1885: Demise of William P. Mackay, who had abandoned his career as a physician to become a Scottish Presbyterian clergyman.
1894: Passing away of Saint Isaac (Antimonov), an elder of the monastery of Optina, who was made the abbot of the monastery by the bishop against the wishes of the other monks, but he overcame their opposition through his humility and gentleness.
1948: The Amsterdam Assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) convened to approve and ratify the Constitution for this newly-formed organization for global Christian unity.
1968: Pope Paul VI arrives in Colombia, making a historical first-ever papal visit to South America.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy: www.studylight.org