July 15
992: Passing away of St. Michael, the first metropolitan of Kiev.
1015: Demise of Vladimir, the Grand Prince of Rus, whose conversion to Christianity marked the beginning of the Russian Orthodox Church.
1099: The Muslim citizens of Jerusalem surrender their city to the first Crusaders.
1274: Passing away of St. Bonaventura, the then Minister General of the Franciscans and a notable preacher. His writings are overflown with a spiritual passion and does away with scholastic nit-picking, a scrupulous attitude of giving too much attention to unimportant minute details.
1779: Birth of Clement C. Moore, American Episcopal educator and theologian, who is best remembered for his mythical poem, “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas.”
1814: Birth of Edward Caswall, an English clergyman and hymn translator, whose English versions of the hymns “Jesus, The Very Thought of Thee” and “WhenMorning Gilds the Skies,” made him very famous.
1823: Fire destroys the famous cathedral in Rome St. Paul’s Outside the Walls, the original edifice of which was erected by the Roman emperor Constantine in AD 324.
1851: Demise of Anne-Marie Javouhey, an extraordinary peasant girl, who took the gospel to the French colonies in Africa and in South America.
1852: The first group of Hawaiian missionaries travel to the Caroline Islands carrying with them a letter of greeting from King Kamehameha III to all the chiefs of the islands of the Pacific, recommending the missionaries to their care and exhorting the people to renounce idols, and to worship the true and living God. The people of Hawaii were eager to share the gospel, after coming to faith.
1951: Formation of the First Southern Baptist Church in Casper in the state of Wyoming by a group of families principally related to the oil industry.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
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