Today in Christian History
MOGILA BROUGHT REVIVAL TO THE EASTERN ORTHODOX CHURCH (1646)
“Now I leave off to speak any more with created beings and begin my communion with God, which shall never be broken off. Farewell, father and mother, f...”
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Let the Holy Spirit fill our spiritual vacuum (1897)
My tongue will proclaim your righteousness all day long—Psalm 71:24 (HOLMAN). It is a simple law of nature, that a...
Events
1560
After three years of imprisonment with torture, Julian “The Little” Hernandez is burned to death in Seville, Spain, for distributing Spanish language Bibles and Protestant literature and rejecting fasts and mortifications as a means of salvation.
Authority for the date: Kamen, Henry. The Spanish Inquisition.1646
Death of Peter Mogila, Metropolitan of Kiev, who had established an educational program that defended Orthodox teachings and had written many books that would remain influential into the twenty-first century, including a Russian catechism.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1838
John Hunt and his wife Hanna Summers arrive in the Fiji Islands as missionaries. Hunt will bring about the conversion of the Fijians and help end the practice of cannibalism.
Authority for the date: Morgan, Robert J. On This Day. Nelson, 1997.1850
Henry Budd becomes the first person of First Nations ancestry ordained to the Anglican priesthood. He will work a large area of Western Canada and translate the Bible and Prayer Book into the Cree language.
Authority for the date: Episcopal Church. Holy Women, Holy Men.1854
Death in Oxford of Martin Joseph Routh, who until three years earlier had been president of Magdalen College. A notable scholar who compiled and published the works of early church fathers, he was in his hundredth year when he died, but clear-minded—and the owner of a personal library of 16,000 volumes, some very rare.
Authority for the date: http://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6gf1ctb1871
Death in Richmond, Virginia, of James Barnett Taylor, a Baptist clergyman, especially noted for his role in creating and preserving Richmond College. He had also written a biography of Lott Cary.
Authority for the date: Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.1888
Death in New York City of Isaac Hecker, an influential American convert to Roman Catholicism, who had founded the order of Paulists in the United States and edited Catholic World.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1917
Italian-born Francesca Xavier Cabrini, founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart, dies in Chicago’s Columbus Hospital. In 1946 she will be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church, becoming the first American citizen declared a saint.
Authority for the date: http://www.catholic.org1994
Gilberto Orellana, an El Salvadorean Christian composer teaching in Morocco, is arrested along with five Muslims he has led to Christ. An international outcry obtains his release after he is sentenced to eight months in prison. His converts also face prison, but three recant.
Authority for the date: CAM International.2011
Authorities close a Baptist church in Neftechala, Azerbaijan, saying “without registration you cannot pray.”
Authority for the date: Persecuted: the global assault on Christians.