September 9
1411: Pope Gregory XII issues a bull containing indulgences; John Hus of Bohemia denounces it publicly.
1515: Passing away of St. Joseph, Abbot of Volokolamsk, who always defended the right of the monasteries to own extensive lands and advocated the expensive decoration of churches. He also supported the Tsars strongly, so long as they cared for the church.
1519: Melanchthon presents his theses for Baccalaureate of Theology at Wittenberg, which stressed the ultimate authority of the Scripture and tried to establish humas inability to meet God’s righteous requirements on its own.
1561: The Colloquy of Poissy, comprising of both French Catholic prelates and reformed Protestant theologians led by Theodore Beza, takes place near Paris. The council led to the 1562 edict offering greater freedom to the French Protestants.
1598: Consecration of the newly completed Catholic church at San Juan de los Caballeros, the first church to be erected in (today`s) New Mexico. The town was founded the same year by Juan de Onate; previously it was an Indian pueblo in the Chama River Valley.
1833: Releasing of the first tracts of the Oxford Movement, an attempt to purify the English Church. They were forced to stop in 1841 after the publication of Tract 90, which interpreted Anglicanism’s “Thirty-Nine Articles” in the Roman Catholic direction.
1840: Demise of Ko Tha Byu, the first Baptist convert from among the Karen people of Burma (Myanmar). Although illiterate, he could serve as a zealous and successful evangelist among his people.
1864: Passing away of the French Roman Catholic missionary Jacques-Désiré Laval in Mauritius, who spent his life for the poor and the slaves there, and was known as the Apostle of Mauritius. This date is observed as a National Holiday there.
1925: Nigerian visionary Abiodun Christiana, an Anglican influenced by Catholicism, begins to invoke Seraphim in her prayers. She went on to found a cultic Christian organization known as the Cherubim and Seraphim Society with doctrines of revelation and divine healing, and with rites involving the Holy Ark of Covenant in its worship services. The society spread in Africa and in the United States and Europe rapidly.
1952: A religious program (a series) known as ‘This is the Life,’ produced under the auspices of the Missouri Synod Lutheran Church, is premiered on Dumont (later ABC) television.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
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