719 Consecration of Boniface (previously known as Wynfrith, a Benedictine monk from England) as a Bishop in Rome. He devoted his life to preaching the Gospel to the German tribes in Germany and Prussia.
1170 Demise of Isidore the Farmer at Madrid, a Spanish farm worker considered as the patron saint of rural areas and of the agricultural workers and also of the city of Madrid.
1455 Pope Calixtus III announces a crusade against the Turks for the capture of Constantinople.
1576 Jeremias II, Ecumenical Patriarch, and his associates issue the Epicrisis on the Confession of Augsburg, as a response to the Lutheran confession, and thereby declaring that the Sacred Tradition is also a source of true faith along with the Holy Bible.
1686 Robert Ratcliffe arrives in Boston from England, to carry out the orders of King Charles II to establish an Anglican Church in Massachusetts.
1778 Demise of Alban Butler (at St.Omer in France), the author of the Lives of the Saints which appeared in five-volumes.
1879 Demise of George Fife Angas (at Angaston), Baptist businessman and the colonizer of Southern Australia.
1889 ‘The Epworth League of the Methodist Episcopal Church’ was founded during a two-day denominational conference in Cleveland, Ohio. It functioned as the foundation for the current United Methodist Youth (UMY) fellowship programs.
1891 Pope Leo XIII issues the encyclical Rerum novarum, dealing with social issues and aiming at social justice. He declared in this encyclical, he declared that the earth is given for the common good, that there needs to be more equality between capital and labour, and that the state has a central role in regulating justice in these matters. It had a wide influence in world history.
1937 Demise of hymn-writer Ada Rundall Greenaway, whose best-known hymns include “For the Dear Ones Parted from Us,” “O Father, We Would Thank Thee,” “O Perfect God, Thy Love,” “O Word of Pity, for Our Pardon Pleading,” “Rise at the Cry of Battle,” and “Rise in the Strength of God.”
1943 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Lutheran theologian and Nazi martyr, wrote in a letter from prison, “I read the Psalms every day, as I have done for years; I know them and love them more than any other book.”
1984 Passing away of Francis Schaeffer in Rochester, Minnesota. A Christian apologist, he had operated L’Abri, a ministry for the intellectuals, supported by his wife Edith. His most important book Escape from Reason was also his smallest but which caused many evangelicals to take the developments in literature and art seriously. He held moral relativity to be responsible for social ills.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
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