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458 :Passing away of Patriarch Anatolius of Constantinople who had joined hands with Cyril of Alexandria and Pope Leo I in fighting against the theological controversies of the times, like Nestorianism, Eutychianism.
529 :The Synod of Orange – attended by thirteen bishops – convenes in Arausio, France; presided over by Caesarius of Arles, it approved a declaration on grace and free will in line with St. Augustine’s doctrines on the nature of grace. These documents were approved by Pope Boniface II in 531.
1448 :Jean de Lastic, Grand Master of Rhodes, informs King of France Charles VII about Zãr’a Ya’iqob’s victories over the Saracens Ethiopia. This letter also brought to light that Prester John, a legendary Christian king, rule in Africa ant not in Asia as assumed till then.
1721 :Hans Egede, Lutheran missionary, lands in Greenland with a group of forty-six missionaries.
1800 :Pope Pius VII returns the papacy to Rome after a long gap.
1842 :Birth of Lucius H. Holsey, who later became the fourth bishop of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church. He was denied schooling because he was of African origin, but managed gain education by himself.
1880: Prussia declares that clergy are subordinate to the state, thus establishing the state over the church.
1894 :Birth of Don R. Falkenberg, the founder of the Mid-West Businessmen’s Council of the Pocket Testament League, an evangelical agency, which later came to be known as the Bible Literature International.
1897 :Demise of David Brown, a prominent Christian author, educator, and church leader in Scotland, who is best known as the co-author of the Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Commentary on the Old and New Testaments; he had written the sections on the Gospels, Acts, and the Epistle to the Romans for the same.
1900: Seventy-one Chinese Christians, including eighteen women and eleven children, are martyred by Boxers at Shouyang.
1907: Pope St. Pius X, condemns the ‘modernist’ intellectual movement, as it exhibited itself in the Catholic Church, through his encyclical Lamentabili
1959: In his encyclical Ad Petri Cathedram, Pope John XXIII expresses the hope that the non-Catholic Christians would experience in the upcoming Vatican II Ecumenical Council “a warm invitation to seek and find unity.”
1979: The West German government votes to continue the prosecution of Nazi war criminals of World War II by removing the statute of limitations on murder.
2011 :G. N. Paul, a Pentecostal pastor, is attacked and repeatedly stabbed by four Hindus at Munugode, India, accusing him of forcibly converting Hindus to Christianity.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy: www.studylight.org