October 27
312 Emperor Constantine gets a vision of Christ; he became victorious over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge outside Rome the next day.
625 Honorius I begins his reign as pope. His belief in Monothelitism (which holds that Christ had only one will, not two), was later condemned as heresy by the Roman Catholic Church; it triggered arguments over papal infallibility.
1553 Spanish physician Michael Servetus is found guilty for promulgating anti-Trinitarianism in Switzerland. He was condemned for heresy and blasphemy, and burned at the stake in Geneva.
1614 The Japanese authorities issue a deadline to Christians to hand over all mission materials to authorities.
1659 Boston authorities hang Marmaduke Stephenson and William Robinson, two Quakers, for their faith. This day later came to be observed as International Religious Freedom Day.
1889 Organization of the first Lithuanian Church in America in Plymouth, with PA. Rev. Alexander Burba as its first pastor.
1972 North Vietnamese soldiers conquer the Laotian town of Kengkok, and take many as prisoners, including missionaries Evelyn Anderson, Beatrice Kosin, Lloyd Oppel, and Samuel Mattix.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
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