March 10
673: Clotilde undersigns a charter, granting a number of properties for the Abbey of Bruyères-le-Châtel, the nunnery, she founded. Saint Agilbert, bishop of Paris, functions as one of the ecclesial witnesses of the charter.
1528: Martyrdom of Balthaser Hubmaier, German reformer and chief writer for the Anabaptist movement.
1747: John Newton, a sailor on a slave ship, gets converted to Christianity during a huge storm at sea. He then became an Anglican clergyman, and the author of the famous hymn “Amazing Grace.” He wrote later, “That 10th of March is a day much to be remembered by me; and I have never allowed it to pass unnoticed since the year 1748. For on that day the Lord came from on high and delivered me out of deep waters.” He was also a zealous abolitionist (a Christian movement to abolish slavery).
1858: Death of Nathaniel Taylor, a prominent New England theologian who had modified the idea of freedom of will as taught by Jonathan Edwards to make it come closer to human experience. His New Haven church experienced great growth and revival.
1867: Chuang Ching-feng, a young Taiwanese Christian, receives the sacraments of Baptism and First Communion. He died at the hands of a mob at 19, after forcing his 15 year old wife to go to church with him.
1879: Death of Paul of Taganrog, who had renounced all his ancestral property and titles of nobility to embrace ascetical life. He was frequented by many people at Taganrog, who sought spiritual solace from him. He was declared a saint by the Russian Orthodox Church.
1937: English historian Arnold J. Toynbee stated categorically, “In this really very brief period of less than 2,000 years Christianity has, in fact, produced greater spiritual effects in the world than have been produced in a comparable space of time by any other spiritual movement that we know of in history.”
1987: The Vatican declares test-tube fertilization, embryo transfer and most other forms of scientific interference in human procreation anti-Christian.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy: www.studylight.org