March 11
843: In an event known as “the Triumph of Orthodoxy,” the two-dimensional images are restored for worship in the Eastern Empire, after a long gap due to iconoclasm (opposition to icons).
859: Martyrdom of Bishop Elogius in Cordoba, Spain, at the hands of Muslims.
1559: Instigated by a sermon from John Knox, a Reformation mob burns catholic churches in Perth, Scotland, and warns priests and the friars from holding the holy mass any more.
1665: New York’s English Deputies approve a new legal code, which guarantees all Protestants the right to practice their religious observances unhindered.
1738: George Whitefield, English revivalist, exhorted in his journal, “Suffering times are a Christian’s best improving times; for they break the will, wean us from the creature, prove the heart.”
1829: Bach’s St. Matthew Passion is revived by Mendelssohn at the Singakademie in Berlin, an attempt which attracted a huge crowd.
1860: Birth of H. Frances Davidson, a pioneer missionary from the Brethren in Christ Church to the African continent.
1877: Gerard Manley Hopkins preaches his first “dominical,” a practice sermon.
1897: Demise of Henry Drummond, Scottish evangelist and religious writer, best known for his classic meditation on 1 Corinthians 13, entitled The Greatest Thing in the World.
2001: Leonid Zwicki becomes the bishop of the newly-created Belarusian Evangelical Lutheran Church.
2005: Directorate of Religious Affairs in Turkey instructs 75,000 mosques to preach this day, warning the Muslims that the Christian missionaries pose a danger to national unity and integrity.
2012: A suicide bomber attacks St. Finbar’s Catholic Church in Jos, Nigeria, killing 10 believers.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy: www.studylight.org