June 9
597: Passing away of St. Columba, the pioneer missionary to Scotland, who evangelized the mainland of Scotland and Northumbria.
1549: the English Parliament brings in uniformity in religious services and publishes the first Book of Common Prayer, since Anglicanism became the newly established national faith.
1572: Repose of Jeanne D’Albret, the queen of Navarre, who managed to keep her country Protestant during the tense and religiously violent sixteenth century. Later, her son Henry, a Huguenot leader, displeased her by converting to Catholicism to become the king of France.
1597: Death of the Jesuit missionary and poet Jose de Anchieta, who had helped establish the famous Brazilian cities São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
1717: passing away of Madame Guyon at Blois, France, a Roman Catholic mystic who claimed to have experienced union with Christ. She had deeply influenced François Fenelon, the French Archbishop, theologian and philosopher.
1732: Englishman James Oglethorpe receives a royal assignment to establish the American colony of Georgia, as a place of refuge for sectarian Protestant believers, persecuted in England.
1784: Father John Carroll is appointed superior of the American missions by Pope Pius VI, as an initial step towards the formal organization of the Roman Catholic Church in the U.S.
1834: Repose of William Carey, pioneer English Baptist missionary, who, having translated portions of Scripture into almost 25 languages, is called by some as the ‘father of modern missions.’
1895: The little Thérèse of Lisieux makes her Act of Oblation (an offering of herself to God’s love) on the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity, by composing an “Offering of Love”.
1899: Ordination of John Joseph Burke as a Roman Catholic priest, who later became an influential Member in the Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle (the Paulists) and the editor of The Catholic World.
1911: Death of Carry Nation, an American temperance leader; after ending an unhappy marriage life with a drunkard, she joined the prohibitionists and took up a crusade against  the saloons (public bar)  in Medicine Lodge, Kansas and in Wichita and Topeka, vandalizing and destroying them. This forced the formation of the prohibition movement in the U.S., which stopped the production and distribution of all kinds of alcoholic drinks for a period of time.
1918: The Soviets summon the Orthodox priest Vladyka Theophanes to Perm, in an attempt to placate the anger of the people of Perm following the execution of Archbishop Andronicus. They asked him to  take Andronicus’ place, which later costed him his life.
1946: Japanese Christians issue a statement of repentance for World War II, pledge to take up their crosses again, and vow to preach Christ on their islands and to support those suffering hunger and poverty after the war.
1947: Death of Roland Allen in Nairobi, whose approach to creating indigenous missions was much appreciated also in the twentieth century.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy:Â www.studylight.org