June 11
888: Passing away of Rimbert, the archbishop of Bremen-Hamburg, who had helped evangelize Scandinavia. He was a disciple of Ansgar and is said to have composed his mentor’s biography.
1294: Demise of Roger Bacon, a Franciscan monk and one of the most original thinkers of the Middle Ages, who also had predicted aircraft, submarines, suspension bridges, engines, and more.
1445: Passing away of Venerable Barnabas, the abbot of Vetluga, who, after serving as an Orthodox priest, opted for the life of a hermit along the River Vetluga at Red Hill. After his demise, a monastery grew up there, followed by an influx of farmers, fulfilling his prediction that this deserted region will become completely inhabited.
1799: Ordination of Richard Allen as a deacon of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia; he later became the first African- American bishop in the U.S.
1850: Birth of David C. Cook, the pioneer developer of Sunday School curriculum and who founded the David C. Cook Publishing Co.
1860: Death of Rev. Baden Powell, a clergyman-mathematician, who had supported Darwinian evolution. He also argued in the uniformitarian line that belief in miracles is atheistic! His son, Robert Baden-Powell is known as the founder of the Boy Scouts.
1918: Daniel Berg and Adolf Gunnar Vingren establish the first Pentecostal Church in Brazil, which was registered as an ‘Assembly of God’ church.
1923: Mildred Cable and the Chinese Trio leave Hwo Chow to travel to Central Asia, without any plans where they were to preach. In a few years they were able to bring the good news to hundreds of cities and villages in the Gobi desert.
1936: Foundation of the Presbyterian Church of America (PCA) in Philadelphia; the denomination changed its name to the Orthodox Presbyterian Church later.
1951: Fulton John Sheen, a great theologian and famous educator, is ordained bishop in the Roman Catholic Church. He later gained international recognition as the host of the radio program “The Catholic Hour” and also presented the TV programs “Life Is Worth Living” and “The Fulton Sheen Program.”
1965: Prem Pradhan, an Evangelist, is released from a prison in Nepal, where he had been imprisoned for witnessing to Christ. He later became an educator and started an orphanage and raised hundreds of orphans in Christian faith, assisted by his wife, and his supporters.
1970: Demise of Frank Laubach, a missionary to the Philippines and a mystic, who had taught reading through phonetics and who was known as the “Apostle of the Illiterates.” His motto was “each one teach one”
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
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