October 19
615: Deusdedit is consecrated pope; later he got the nickname “earthquake pope” because of a violent tremor which occurred during his papacy. He was a saintly man and is said to have healed a leper by kissing him.
1186: Pope Urban III extends papal protection to St. Mary’s, Clerkenwell in London, makes the woman abbess directly responsible for the abbey under the pope.
1562: Birth of George Abbot, the later archbishop of Canterbury, who was a recognized leader of the English Calvinists, but also demonstrated Puritan sympathies. He played a leading role in translating the  King James Version of the Bible in 1611.
1609: Passing away of Jacob Arminius, the Dutch theologian who lent his name to the beliefs which oppose the major tenets of Protestant Reformed (Calvinist) theology. These beliefs come under today’s Arminianism.
1682: Demise of Thomas Browne in Norwich, England, who was known as a physician and as the author of the prose classic Religio Medici [The Religion of a Doctor].
1720: Birth of John Woolman, American Quaker reformer, who with his “Journal,” (1756-1772), greatly influenced the 19th century abolitionists.
1902: Demise of William O. Cushing, an American Christian clergyman and hymn-writer, known for his most popular hymns “Under His Wings,” “When He Cometh,” “Ring the Bells of Heaven,” and “Hiding in Thee.”
1918: The monks Euthymius and John of the Belogorsk monastery are killed by the Bolsheviks for refusing to join the Red Army.
1921: Birth of Bill Bright, American youth evangelist, who with his wife founded the organization Campus Crusade for Christ in 1951.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
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