July 14
664: Passing away of Deusdedit, the sixth Archbishop of Canterbury.
1575: Demise of Richard Taverner, a Bible translator and reformer in England.
1614: Repose of Camillus de Lellis, who led a wild life as a soldier, but underwent a conversion and devoted his life to serve the sick, and founded the Agonizants, an order to take care of the sick and to minister to the dying.
1773: The Methodist Church in America comes together for its first annual conference at St. George’s Church in Philadelphia, PA.
1792: Samson Occom, a notable evangelist and a hymn-writer among American Indians, found dead at his house; he was the principal fundraiser for the later Dartmouth University.
1800: Birth of Anglican clergyman Matthew Bridges, who later converted to Catholicism, influenced by the Oxford Movement in England. He was the author of the hymn, “Crown Him with Many Crowns.”
1809: Passing away of Nikodemos of the Holy Mountain, a champion of contemplative prayer and the co-author (with Macarius of Corinth) of the Philokalia (Love of the Good), a compilation of the spiritual writings by the desert fathers.
1833: Anglican clergyman John Keble preaches his famous sermon on national religious apostasy, marking the beginning of the Oxford Movement, which sought to purify and to revitalize the Church of England.
1850: Demise of Johann August Wilhelm Neander, a Jew who changed his name – David Mendel – with his conversion and became an influential theologian and church historian.
1857: Baptism of Ting Ang, a trader in Fuchau, China, the first Methodist convert in China.
1892: The first national convention of the Baptist Young People’s Union in Detroit.
1988: Repose of William Ofori-Atta (known as “Paa Willie”), a fervent Christian evangelist and politician from Ghana, known for his simple and incorruptible life and who was imprisoned five times for his disagreements with the ruling powers.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy: www.studylight.org