September 10
1067: Passing away of Lady Godgifu (Godiva) Buckingham, an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman and a pious Christian, known for founding several monasteries.
1224: Arrival of the Franciscans (founded by St. Francis of Assisi in 1209), originally called “Grey Friars” because of their gray habits, in England.
1622: Carlo Spinola, an Italian Jesuit, is burned alive for his faith at Nagasaki, Japan.
1718: The Collegiate School at New Haven, CT (founded by Congregationalists in 1791, unhappy with an increasing religious liberalism at Harvard), changes its name to Yale.
1794: Starting of the Blount College in Knoxville, the first American non-denominational institution of higher learning. Today it is known as the University of Tennessee.
1819: Birth of Canadian hymn-writer Joseph Scriven, who authored the hymn, “What a Friend We Have in Jesus.”
1880: The Pope appoints Patrick Augustine Feehan as the first Catholic archbishop of Chicago.
1898: Demise of Alexander Crummell, an African-American priest of the Episcopal Church, who worked hard to obtain equality for African Americans. His name is also in the Episcopal Church calendar.
1918: Execution of the Orthodox priest Nicholas Ponomarev in Verkhoturye by the Communists.
1922: Opening of Romania’s first Pentecostal congregation.
1937: Demise of Burnett Hillman Streeter, a biblical scholar, whose work The Four Gospels: A Study of Origins (1924), tried to establish that there were four written sources behind the four gospels, because of the differences found in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
1958: Kornelius Isaak, a Mennonite missionary, comes under severe attack in Paraguay; he succumbed to the injuries the next day.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy:Â www.studylight.org