June 15
992 Passing away of Michael of Kiev, the first Bishop of Kiev.
1520 Leo X issues the papal encyclical Exsurge Domine, condemning German Reformer Martin Luther as a heretic on 41 grounds and branding him an enemy of the Roman Catholic Church.
1649 Margaret Jones of Charlestown becomes the first person to be tried and executed for witchcraft by the Pietists in colonial Massachusetts.
1686 Organization of the King’s Chapel in Boston, making it the first Anglican church established in colonial New England.
1692 Cotton Mather and eleven associates sign a statement on witchcraft stating that they literally believe in the claims coming out of the Salem witch trials.
1932 Demise of Dorothy Frances Blomfield Gurney at Notting Hill, London, the author of the wedding hymn “O Perfect Love.”
1937 Kierkegaard scholar Walter Lowrie encourages and supports Charles Williams’s idea for a series on the Danish philosopher.
1941 Repose of Anglican mystic Evelyn Underhill in London, author of the books including Mysticism (1911) and Worship (1937).
1979 Greater Europe Mission (GEM) an evangelical missionary agency founded in 1949 and involved in church planting and evangelism in over a dozen European countries, moves its headquarters from Chicago to Wheaton, Illinois.
2006 Three million believers go in procession through Sao Paolo, Brazil, in the world’s largest “March for Jesus,” as claimed by its organizers Reborn in Christ Pentecostal church.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy: www.studylight.org