December 6
1305: Demise of Maximus, Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus, who had stood for the Russian Orthodox Church in times of troubles.
1492: Christopher Columbus gives the name “Saint Nicholas” to a port on the Island of Haiti in honour of Nicholas Day.
1675: Repose of John Lightfoot, a bible scholar and clergyman of the Church of England. Being a member of the Westminster Assembly, he had often preached before Parliament and had made major contributions to the Polyglot Bible.
1678: Father Louis Hennepin, who was on a visit to the Niagara Falls, draws the first known sketch of the awesome natural wonder.
1679: Oliver Plunkett, a Catholic priest, is arrested in County Dublin, accused of co-operating with the French government to facilitate a possible French invasion of Ireland. He was executed, and became the last of the Catholic martyrs in Britain.
1787: Opening of Cokesbury College, the first Methodist college in America, in Abingdon, MD.
1812: Tsar Alexander I officially permits a Bible Society in St. Petersburg, Russia.
1829: William Carey, a missionary, who hears that Sati (the practice of self immolation by widows) has been abolished in India, ignores his Sunday homily so that he could take time to translate the declaration into Bengali.
1925: Demise of Russell Conwell, a Baptist pastor who had founded the Temple College (Temple University). In his popular sermon titled “Acres of Diamonds” he put forward the view that  Christians should seize honest opportunities to earn wealth for good uses.
1996: Elijah Abubakar Yisa, a Muslim convert to Christianity who later became a priest of the Anglican Church, opens his church to the victims of a riot in Nigeria. In his capacity as a pastor, he mediated with the authorities for peace.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy:Â https://studylight.org