September 6
1320: The relics of Saint Michael, the Prince of Tver in Russia, martyred by a Khan, are displayed in a church he had built in honor of the Transfiguration.
1529: George Blaurock, an Anabaptist leader and evangelist who had established congregations in the Austrian Tyrol, is burned to death for “heresy” in Hapsburg, Germany.
1620: The ship Mayflower starts its journey from Plymouth, England, with Pilgrims aboard.
1657: Blaise Pascal’s Provincial Letters, which defended Jansenism, are placed on the Index of Prohibited Books.
1748: Repose of Bishop Edmund Gibson at Bath, England, who had brought about a definitive and scholarly work on English ecclesiastical law called Corpus Juris Ecclesiastici Anglicani.
1806: Baptism of Pran Krishna, a Hindu convert, who also had written a hymn that begins, “Being in great fear, I came and sat at your feet.” He was then ostracized from his village but became a successful evangelist in India.
1812: Conversion of Adoniram Judson, a colonial American missionary from Congregationalism to become a Baptist. He later translated the Bible into Burmese successfully and authored a Burmese dictionary (1849).
1837: Demise of Pastor Visoowasanaden in Kumbakonam, India, who won many for Christ with his integrity, meekness, and knowledge of Scripture.
1907: Pope Pius X issues the encyclical Pascendi dominici gregis, condemning the “modernist” movement within the various branches of Christendom, and establishing councils to combat these “modern errors.”
1938: Release of the movie “Boys Town” by MGM studios, an award-winning film which depicts the founding of the famous vocational institution in Nebraska in 1917 by Father Edward J. Flanagan, the parish priest.
1940: The National Christian Council of Japan organizes its churches into a single body under the name the United Church of Christ in Japan, which has complete autonomy from Western church control.
1955: Muslims in Istanbul riot against Christians and Greeks, vandalizing sixty churches in the city.
1968: The Latin American Bishops Conference issue a document titled “Justice,” which calls for a more equitable distribution of goods, decrying Marxism for its totalitarian tendencies and capitalism because it puts profits above people.
1974: Francis Schaeffer, an American Presbyterian missionary, writes in a letter, “Only the one who has been hurt can bring healing. The other person cannot. It is the one who has been hurt who has to be willing to be hurt again to show love, if there is to be hope that healing will come.”
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy: www.studylight.org