February 10
1546: Martin Luther exhorted in a letter to his wife Kate: ‘Pray, and let God worry.’
1856: Anthony Mary Claret, Archbishop of Santiago who tirelessly worked for justice and reform, survives wounds at Holguin, Cuba, from an assassin who attacked him with a razor, leaving his face open from ear to jaw. It was a revolt against his call for an end to racism and oppression.
1899: The Church of England authorizes the use of the 1885 English Revised (RV or ERV) Version of the Bible in Anglican liturgy for the first time.
1913: Michael Platonovich Krasnoperov is consecrated as the first bishop of the Orthodox diocese of Petropavlovsk and Akmolinsk, Kazakhstan and takes the name Bishop Methodius. The Bolsheviks executed Methodius in 1921, as a warning signal to rebelling peasants, stabbing him and pushing his priestly cross into one of the wounds.
1947: Peter Marshall, U.S. Senate Chaplain, implored God: “Save Thy servants from the tyranny of the nonessential. Give them the courage to say “No” to everything that makes it more difficult to say “Yes” to Thee.”
1973: Christians are shot in a stadium in Kabale, Uganda, under the dictatorship of Idi Amin, the most cruel despot in the modern times.
Edited by:Â T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy: www.studylight.org