November 11
619: Passing away of St. John the Almsgiver, the Patriarch of Alexandria. He was confronted with a large population of Egyptians who belonged to Monophysites (who held that Jesus had only one Nature – the divine, which suppressed his human nature); but he won much of the population back to Orthodoxy through sympathy and charity.
826: Demise of Theodore the Studite, a champion of icons.
1215: Pope Innocent III convenes the Fourth Lateran Council, which first defined “transubstantiation,” the Catholic belief that the bread and wine change invisibly into the body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist.
1793: English pioneer missionary William Carey reaches Calcutta, India after sailing five months by ship. Later he founded the Baptist Missionary Society, the first of the British Protestant missions agencies.
1831: Baptist preacher Nat Turner  is hanged in Jerusalem, in Virginia, for leading a slave insurrection in which many white people were killed. Whites retaliated by killing more than two hundred African-Americans in retaliation.
1917: Demise of David Lipscomb, editor and author and one of the founders of Nashville Bible School, which was later renamed Lipscomb University.
1921: Repose of P. T. Forsyth, English theologian and educator, who became the principal of Hackney Theological College in Hampstead, London. He authored the book The Person and Place of Jesus Christ, which concentrated on man’s need for atonement and Christ’s voluntary provision of it.
1938: Kate Smith first hums Irving Berlin’s song “God Bless America,” which then became her signature song.
1951: Repose of Tsiang Beda, the Jesuit bishop of Shanghai in a communist prison: He was jailed for having refused to head the Chinese “reform” church.
1966: The Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren in the U.S., merge into one denomination, to be called the United Methodist Church.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy:Â https://studylight.org