June 27
1299: Pope Boniface VIII officially declares Scotland’s allegiance to the Catholic Church through his encyclical Scimus fili.
1638: Patriarch Cyril (Lucaris) of Constantinople is strangled and his body thrown into the Bosporus under Sultan Murad IV. Cyril had also served as the Patriarch of Alexandria.
1739: George Whitefield, English revivalist, noticed in a letter, “Christ’s servants have always been the world’s fools.”
1786: Ordination of James Upton as pastor of the Baptist Church in Greenwalk, London, with just twelve members. In fourteen years the community grew into 290 believers.
1844: Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormons, and his brother Hyrum lynched by a mob in Carthage, Illinois, instigated also from the community’s moral outrage over Smith’s recognition polygamous marriages among Mormons.
1870: Demise of Cyrus Kingsbury a Presbyterian missionary to the Choctaw Indians, who also had raised funds to get the African-American slaves freed.
1895: Ordination of Onangwatgo – also known as Cornelius Hill – as an Episcopal deacon, who later became the first ordained priest of the Oneida nation.
1933: Repose of James Mountain, an English evangelist and composer of hymn tunes, among which the following are very famous: “Jesus, I Am Resting, Resting” and “Like a River Glorious.”
1944: Passing away of James Moffatt, who had made a new translation of the New Testament and also was a teacher of church history.
1961: Arthur Michael Ramsey enthroned as the 100th Archbishop of Canterbury, the principal see of the Established Church of England.
1978: Siberian believers known as the “Moscow Seven,” take refuge at the embassy of the United States’ in Moscow.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy: www.studylight.org