May 28
1008: [probable date] Demise of St. Bernard of Menthon, who had evangelized in the Alps was known as Bernard of Savoy, at Novara. He was famous for founding monasteries in the mountains to save travelers, by sending out monks with large dogs to seek people lost in the snow fall in winter.
1663: Joseph Alleine, a Puritan who had authored the work An Alarm to the Unconverted, is jailed in Leicester because he did not comply with England’s Act of Uniformity – a series of Regulations intended to bring about religious conformity within the Church of England.
1685: James Renwick and about 200 men meet in Sanquhar, Scotland, to draft the Second Sanquhar Declaration to expose King James II of England (VII of Scotland) as a murderer and an idolater. It also declares that as per the acts of the Parliament and of the Scottish church he is ineligible to hold the kingship because he is a Catholic.
1792: Bp. John Carroll of the Roman Catholic diocese of Baltimore issues a pastoral letter, the first of its kind in the United States. The main thrust of the letter was a call for Christian education.
1818: Thomas Jefferson, the former president of the US, wrote to a Jewish journalist on religious intolerance: “Your sect by its sufferings has furnished a remarkable proof of the universal point of religious insolence, inherent in every sect, disclaimed by all while feeble and practised by all when in power. Our laws have applied the only antidote to this vice, protecting our religions, as they do our civil rights, by putting all on equal footing. But more remains to be done.”
1898: The Shroud of Turin in Italy is first photographed by Secundo Pia in Turin’s Cathedral, where it had been preserved for 320 years.
1899: The first Latin American Plenary Council begins in Rome to discuss the numerous issues faced by the Catholic churches in Latin America.
1937: Demise of Alfred Adler, a Jewish convert to Christianity who was famous as a neurologist and a psychiatrist, in Aberdeen, Scotland. He held man’s “will to power” a primary motivator in human behavior and also addressed the issue of inferiority feelings.
1938: John and Isobel Kuhn along with Charles Paterson open the first rainy season Bible school for the Lisu people of Thailand, because the people had more free time during this season.
1940: Demise of missionary leader, Florence Selina Harriett Young in Sydney, Australia.
1941: Father Maximillian Kolbe is shifted to the concentration camp at Auschwitz where he was later executed, as he offered himself in place of a man who has a family.
1949: A communist party congress in Czechoslavkia autocratically declares its right to educate children in atheistic Leninism without considering their parents’ religious values.
1954: President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill aimed at adding the words “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance.
1958: Formation of the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (UPCUSA) by the merger of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. and the Presbyterian Church of North America.
1987: Wu Weizun, a fervent Christian, who suffered severely for his faith in Chinese prisons and camps, is formally released from prison. Astonished over his persistence in faith and refusal to pretend he had accepted the communist line, the authorities decide to take care of him, giving him a hut, official registration, and a monthly allowance.
2011: Release of US Citizen Eddie Jun Yong-Su, a missionary to North Korea. He had to undergo severe punishments and tortures.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy:Â www.studylight.org