September 30
653: Demise of St. Honorius of Canterbury, one among the missionaries sent to England by Pope Gregory I. His works fruited also in the consecration of Ithamar of Rochester as the first native-born Anglo-Saxon bishop.
1736: Frederic Martin admits three slaves into the church by baptism on St. Thomas Island.
1824: James “Diego” Thomson, a Scottish Presbyterian and colporteur from the British and Foreign Bible Society, arrives in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and distributes 800 New Testaments. It was later considered the first significant Protestant influence on this Catholic nation.
1865: Demise of Francis Wayland, a Baptist preacher and educator and an effective advocate for public libraries.
1882: Passing away of Johann Jakob Herzog, a German Reformed theologian, educator, and a major contributor to the German version of the Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge.
1943: Repose of the Orthodox priest Seraphim (Nicholas Zagorovsky), considered a martyr because of the years he spent in exile and because he was forced to live a life of privation and suffering in order to hold religious services in secret after his release.
1991: Demise of Moses Okesiji, a prominent Baptist pastor in Nigeria.
2011: A Muslim mob vandalizes the St. George Coptic Church in Edfu, Egypt and the Islamic officials and local media blame Christians for the incident.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy: https://christianhistoryinstitute.org