June 6
1622: Gregory XV publishes the bull Inscrutabili Divinae, reminding the Church of its mission to the newly discovered native populations in the recently discovered Americas.
1799: Birth of Alexis F. Lvov, a Russian church musician, who later composed the tune to the hymn, “God, the Almighty One! Wisely Ordaining.”
1870: Demise of Anna Hinderer, who had served as a missionary in Nigeria until ill-health forced her to return to England. Back home, she continued to work among factory girls and the children of the poor, in spite of her sickness.
1886: Repose of John Williamson Nevin in Lancaster, Pennsylvania; as a staunch Calvinist theologian, he opposed the nineteenth-century revivalism, arguing that it was too individualistic and that it did not uphold the historic confessions of the church.
1900: Chinese revolutionaries – Boxers – hack to death Li Chouzi, an ardent Christian girl, and all the other Chinese Christians of her village.
1907: Charting of Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, a graduate school for biblical and rabbinical studies, in Philadelphia.
1925: Harold Wildish sails to South America to substitute an ailing missionary. Lacking money for the trip, he prayed to the Lord and he is said to have received a check in the mail for twenty-five pounds the next morning from an unknown person.
1977: Consecration and installation of Joseph Lason as Bishop of Biloxi, Mississippi, making him the first African- American Roman Catholic bishop since the 19th century.
1991: Christian brothers Zaher Kamel, a doctor, and Maher Kamel, a high school teacher, are martyred by Muslim radicals in Qena, Upper Egypt.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy: www.studylight.org