December 7
374 – Episcopal consecration of Ambrose was d Bishop of Milan, Italy 34. Being an Early Church Father, his works on theology and ethics made Ambrose one of the “four doctors” of the Church, along with Jerome, Augustine, and Gregory the Great.
430 – Cyril of Alexandria formally condemns the doctrine of the Antiochian monk Nestorius at the Synod of Rome. Nestorius had claimed that there were two separate Persons in the Incarnate Christ, the Divine and the Human.
521 – (traditional date) Birth of Columba, who became an Irish monk, educator and a bishop. This great missionary took up the task of evangelizing Scotland and Northern England and even founded a monastery on the isle of Iona.
1254 – Repose of Pope Innocent IV, who issued a bull allowing the Inquisition to use torture and anonymous denunciations. His reign was overshadowed by perpetual conflict with German emperors and he became infamous for inducing the French king Louis IX to undertake the crusades.
1542 – Emperor Charles V declares a reward on the head of the Anabaptist leader Menno Simon.
1562 – Demise of Roman Catholic composer Adrian Willaert, a founder of the Venetian school and who had composed very famous masses, hymns, psalms, and motets. He even developed an antiphonal style, a style in which alternating groups respond to each other.
1661 – The British Parliament forces the American Colony of Massachusetts to suspend its Corporal Punishment Act of 1656 imposed harsh penalties on Quakers and other religious Non-conformists.
1821 – Repose of Pomare II, the Christian king of Tahiti.
1875 – Five Franciscan nuns, who went on exile due to the policies of Bismarck, in a shipwreck off the coast of England. Gerard Manley Hopkins will write a celebrated poem about the event: “The Wreck of the Deutschland”
1892 – The African church write a letter to the Anglican church enumerating the works of Samuel Adjai Crowther, the first African bishop in Nigeria, whom the British missionaries wanted to project unsuccessful so that they would get a white leaders. Crowther had thousands of conversions and the establishment of many schools and churches to his credit.
1965 – A formal reconciliation takes place between the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches. They reversed a mutual excommunication of each other, which dated back to July 1054.
1973 – The Presbyterian Church in America formally institutes its missionary organization – PCA Mission to the World – in Atlanta.
1990 – Tahir Iqbal, a Christian paraplegic, arrested by the Pakistani authorities, for alleged defamation of Mohammed. While dying in prison he declared, “I will kiss my rope, but I will never deny my faith.”
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy: https://studylight.org