December 14
1363: Birth of Jean Charlier de Gerson, who became a famous French theologian, and who attended the councils of Pisa (1409) and Constance (1414-18), during the papal schism of 1378-1414. During the final years of his life in a monastery at Lyons he engaged himself in teaching children, composing hymns and writing books on Christian mysticism.
1417: Sir John Oldcastle, a Lollard leader, is executed for his Wycliffian religious views.
1591: Repose of John of the Cross in Ubeda, Spain, a Carmelite mystic and poet, best-known for his works The Spiritual Canticle and The Dark Night of the Soul.
1642: Lady Deborah Moody and others are questioned by the Quarterly Court of Salem for their opposition to infant baptism. She then moved to the New Netherlands (New York), where she became influential in introducing Baptist teachings.
1655: Oliver Cromwell decides to allow Jews back into England centuries after their expulsion.
1710: Demise of Henry Aldrich, the dean of Christ Church, Oxford. He was a church of England clergyman, known for his versatile talents in architecture (he designed All Saints Church, Oxford), music (composed many church anthems), and philosophy (his work Introduction to Logic became very popular).
1715: Demise of influential Anglican Archbishop Thomas Tenison in London, one of the founders of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel.
1861: The bells of St. Paul’s Cathedral toll at midnight to the death of Prince Albert at Windsor Castle, a consort of Queen Victoria. Being a Lutheran, Albert had taken steps to restore the moral status of the British monarchy. He also had introduced reforms into England so as to improve science, technology, education, military organization, and the lot of the working classes.
1906: Demise of Elizabeth Evelyn Wright, an African-American educator, who had taken efforts to educate African-Americans, and will be honoured in the Episcopal Church calendar.
1922: Chartering of “Toc H” (the “Talbot House”), a Christian fellowship which originated in 1915 in Belgium under Anglican chaplain P.T.B. Clayton, M.C.
1924: Walter Maier, a Lutheran theologian and author, starts the radio station KFUO (“The Gospel Voice”) at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri.
1943: Passing away of John Harvey Kellogg a prominent figure among the early Seventh-day Adventists, who with his theories and experiments was successful in developing pre-packaged health foods and cereals, which led to the formation of the breakfast-cereal industry.
1955: Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, a famous Catholic religious leader, quoted in ‘Look’ magazine with his statement “an atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.”
1981: Israel formally annexes the Golan Heights, which it had captured from Syria during the 1967 War.
1993: Muslims in the Tamezguida region murder twelve Croatian and Bosnian Christians in Algeria.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy: https://studylight.org