October 24
1260: Consecration of the Chartres Cathedral in France under Pope Alexander IV. This representation of high Gothic architecture was completed in less than 30 years.
1537: Demise of Jane Seymour at Hampton Court, the mother of Prince Edward, two weeks after giving birth to him. It was Prince Edward who promoted the Protestant Reformation in England.
1648: The Peace of Westphalia signed, ending the Thirty Years War in central Europe and extending equal rights to Catholics and Protestants.
1655: Demise of Pierre Gassendi in Paris, a Roman Catholic priest, renowned also a mathematician, scientific experimenter, and philosopher, and who had revived the atomic theory of Epicurus.
1826: Repose of Ann Hasseltine Judson, the wife of missionary Adoniram Judson, in Burma, where both of them were engaged in Evangelisation after they were forced out from India. The pair had left their home land as missionaries just 12 days after their marriage.
1870: Passing away of St. Anthony Claret, a Roman Catholic missionary in Catalan.
1956: Margaret Ellen Towner becomes the first woman ordained in the Presbyterian Church. The ordination took place at Syracuse, New York.
1992: Repose of Archbishop Michael of Toledo, who had helped the establishment of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
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