October 13
-539 (BC): The Persian armies of Cyrus the Great capture Babylon, a military stronghold which had taken Judah into exile in 586 BC under Nebuchadnezzar (2 Kings 25).
1247: A vial containing “Christ’s blood,” stamped with official seals, is received in England by the king and the crowds with cheer.
1307: Philip IV the Fair arrests all Templars of France and leave them to torture with the aim of incriminating them so that he could confiscate their wealth.
1605: Demise of Theodore Beza, a French-born theologian, widely recognized as Calvin’s successor.
1670: Virginia bans slavery for Negroes, who had arrived in the American colonies as Christians. Unfortunately, the law was repealed in 1682.
1706: Murder of the Coptic king Iyasu I of Ethiopia, who was a successful warrior, a mediator in religious differences, and had built many churches.
1836: Theodore Fliedner opens his first deaconess training center at Kaiserswerth, also with Florence Nightingale, the “Lady with a Lamp,” as one among the first trainees.
1843: B’nai B’rith – Sons of the Covenant- one of the oldest and the largest of the Jewish fraternal organizations, established by a group of German Jews in New York City.
1908: Organization of the Church of the Nazarene in Texas.
1917: The Virgin Mary appears to three shepherd children near Fatima, Portugal, for the last time in a series of six apparitions between May and October, always on the 13th of every month. This last apparition was attended by over 50,000 pilgrims.
1988: The Bishop of Turin, Italy, announces that the Shroud of Turin, which was believed to be Christ’s burial sheet, could not be established in scientific testing. Its age could be dated back only to 1280, and not to the time of Jesus’ crucifixion (ca. AD 30-33).
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
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