October 3
1226: Repose of St. Francis of Assisi, a mystic and the founder of the Franciscan order, known as the second Christ.
1260: The mortal remains of St. Clare of Assisi are shifted from the church of St. George in Assisi to the St. Chiara, specially built to exhibit them for public reverence. Those who take part in the exhumation are awed to find that her body “incorrupt,” a solid proof for her sanctity.
1531: Zwingli and Luther part at Marburg, after differences on the teaching about the Lord’s Supper.
1690: Demise of Robert Barclay, a Scot, who systematized Quaker theology in his work Apology for the True Christian Divinity.
1691: Signing of the Treaty of Limerick, which extended the kingdom William III of England to Ireland. Due to the efforts of the defenders of the treaty, it assured them the right to march out with honors and promised Catholics free exercise of their religion in Ireland.
1692: Increase Mather publishes his article “Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits,” which brought an end to the Salem Witch Trials that had begun earlier this year in Massachusetts.
1796: Jean-Louis Anne Madelain Lefebvre de Cheverus settles down in Boston, Massachusetts, where he later became the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Boston. He worked among Indians, learning their language, and worked hard ministering to Catholics and victims of yellow fever.
1875: Founding of the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio by the Jewish management, making it the first Jewish college in America to train men for the rabbinate.
1877: Organizing of the Union Church of Christ in Japan.
1919: Demise of Daniel B. Towner, an American music evangelist, a co-worker of Dwight L. Moody and the head of the Music Department of Moody Bible Institute.
1929: The Church of Scotland merges with the United Free Church of Scotland, retaining the name Church of Scotland. It maintained an official state connection, but its ecclesiastical government is Presbyterian in nature.
1943: Lutheran pastor Kjeldgaard Jensen in Gilleleje, Denmark, reads out a letter from the bishops of the land, instructing the believers to assist in the rescue work for the Jews from the impending Nazi deportation to death camps. The bishops reminded the Danes that Jesus was a Jew, that persecution violates the command to love one’s neighbor, and that the deportation is contrary to Danish conceptions of justice. As a result, the town took steps to hide over 1,300 Jews and transported most of them to neutral Sweden.
1966: Demise of Orthodox deacon Ieronymos of Aegina, whose life was considered for sainthood on account of his zealous, holy, and prayerful life.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
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