December 23
814 Priestly ordination of Magnentius Hrabanus Maurus, who became one of the most brilliant scholars of his times.
1193 Demise of Thorlac Thorhallssohn, who founded the first monastery in Iceland.
1528 Oecolampadius, the reformer, gathers more than two hundred citizens of Basel to present a petition, formulated by Oecolampadius, for the suppression of the holy mass of the Catholics.
1648 Birth of Robert Barclay, Scottish Quaker theologian. His work, An Apology for the True Christian Divinity (1676), made him the most prominent theologian in the early Quaker Church.
1652 Demise of John Cotton, known as the “father of New England Congregationalism.”
1736 Inquisitor Cristóval Sánchez Calderón of Lima, Peru, executes Dona Ana de Castro for practicing a Jewish mourning ritual and other Jewish rituals because she considered it not in conflict with Christianity.
1790 Birth of Jean Francois Champollion, the French Egyptologisthe, who successfully decoded the hieroglyphics of the Rosetta Stone (uncovered in 1799) in 1822. He is recognized as the founder of modern Egyptology.
1841 Birth of Handley C.G. Moule, an Anglican theologian and the Bishop of Durham from 1901. This profound scholar had published commentaries on nearly all of the letters of St. Paul.
1897 Peru passes a law empowering mayors of provincial councils to solemnize marriages, paving the way for non-Catholics to get married.
1950 Pope Pius XII officially declares that the tomb of St. Peter had been discovered beneath St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
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