September 21
1451 Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa condones a regulation obliging Jews of Holland to wear a yellow badge.
1452 Birth of Girolamo Savonarola, a Dominican turned Italian reformer. His attacks on Alexander VI led to his excommunication. Later he was convicted of heresy and executed.
1522 Martin Luther, first publishes his German translation of the New Testament. (His translation of the entire Bible was completed in 1534)
1612 Demise of Venerable Joseph, the founder of Zaonikiev Monastery in Volgoda.
1748 Repose of John Balguy, a Church of England priest, who had written many books of theology and apologetics as well as an essay on redemption, rejecting substitution in atonement.
1795 Organization of the first lodge of Orangemen – named after William, Prince of Orange – in Ireland, a bitterly sectarian Protestant fraternity which often clashed with equally angry Roman Catholic societies known as Defenders or Ribbonmen.
1848 Organization of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention in Tulip, Arkansas, by 72 delegates from Baptist churches and organizations.
1933 Martin Niemoeller begins organizing the Pastors’ Emergency League in Germany during Hitler’s rise to power. Although over 7,000 churches joined it, some 2,500 later withdrew under Nazi pressure. The League led to the famous Barmen Synod in May 1934.
1935 Demise of James M. Gray, a Bible teacher, author, pastor of the Reformed Episcopal Church, dean and president of Moody Bible Institute, and an editor of the Scofield reference Bible and a hymn-writer.
1992 A Christian radio station in the Philippines comes under Islamic terrorist attack, killing leading figures.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
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