November 14
565: Passing away of Roman Emperor Justinian, who had reunited the Eastern and Western empires politically and religiously and had erected several basilicas and created the Justinian Code. This code of law influenced the development of canon law in the Middle Ages and secular law codes into modern times.
1359: Repose of Gregory Palamas, a fourteenth-century Byzantium monk, who had advocated repetitive prayer and devotion to Mary. He fled Mt. Athos to escape the Turks, became the bishop of Thessalonica, was excommunicated during power struggles, and eventually rehabilitated.
1716: Demise of the Lutheran philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz at Hanover, Germany. He is said to have refused lucrative positions for changing his faith. Being a mathematical genius, the symbols he developed are still used in calculus.
1739: English revivalist George Whitefield declared in his journal, “We can preach the Gospel of Christ no further than we have experienced the power of it in our own hearts.”
1784: Episcopal ordination of Samuel Seabury as the Bishop of Connecticut and Rhode Island, making him the first bishop of the American Protestant Episcopal Church, and the first Anglican bishop in America.
1861: The Northern association of the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) in New York City founds the United States Christian Commission, to minister to the material and spiritual needs of soldiers during the American Civil War.
1869: Repose of Elizabeth Maria Thompson, who had gone to Lebanon to take care of the widows and orphans created by a Muslim massacre of the Christian males at Damascus; she founded the Lebanon Evangelical Mission.
1876: The Girl’s Higher Normal School sponsored by Christians opens in Tokyo, Japan.
1901: C.H.S. Matthews sails from Liverpool to Australia, becomes a bush parson; there he founded the Brotherhood of the Good Shepherd.
1941: Foundation of the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF) in Chicago, an inter-denominational organization which provides Christian fellowship, nurture and discipleship among Christian college-age students.
1990: Demise of Malcolm Muggeridge, a British journalist, who introduced Mother Teresa to the world. He had become a Roman Catholic in his old age and wrote a dubious life sketch about Christ and the famous The Third Testament, a look at the lives of some notable but eccentric Christians.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
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