NOVEMBER 14
JUSTINIAN RULED THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH (565)
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Events
565
Death of eighty-two-year-old Roman Emperor Justinian. He had reunited the Eastern and Western empires politically and religiously, erected several basilicas and created the Justinian Code. This code of law will influence the development of canon law in the Middle Ages and secular law codes into modern times.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1359
Death of Gregory Palamas, a fourteenth-century Byzantium monk. He had advocated repetitive prayer and devotion to Mary. Having fled from Mt. Athos to escape the Turks, he became bishop of Thessalonica, was excommunicated during power struggles, and eventually rehabilitated.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1716
Death at Hanover, Germany, of the Lutheran philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz who refused lucrative positions that would have forced him to change faith. A mathematical genius, the symbols he developed will be used in calculus.
Authority for the date: Encyclopedia Americana, 1956.1784
Consecration of American clergyman Samuel Seabury as a bishop of the Anglican Church in Aberdeen, Scotland. The Church of England had refused to perform the ceremony because he would not swear loyalty to the crown. The following year he formally becomes America’s first Anglican bishop. Five years later, he will help reorganize America’s Anglicans as the Episcopal Church.
Authority for the date: Episcopal Church. Holy Women, Holy Men.1861
At a convention of the Northern association of the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) in New York City, the United States Christian Commission is formed. It will minister to the material and spiritual needs of soldiers during the American Civil War.
Authority for the date: Leete, Frederick DeLand. Christian Brotherhoods. Cincinnati: Jennings & Graham, 1912.1869
Death of Elizabeth Maria Thompson, founder of the Lebanon Evangelical Mission. She had gone to Lebanon to comfort the widows and orphans created by a Muslim massacre of the Christian males at Damascus.
Authority for the date: www.lutheranhistory.org.1876
The Christian-sponsored Girl’s Higher Normal School opens in Tokyo, Japan.
Authority for the date: Thomas, Winburn Townshed. Protestant Beginnings in Japan. C.E. Tuttle Co., 1959.1901
C.H.S. Matthews sails from Liverpool to Australia to become a bush parson. There he will become founder of the Brotherhood of the Good Shepherd.
Authority for the date: Matthews, Ch. H. S. A Parson in the Australian Bush. London: Edward Arnold, 1908.1910
Death of John La Farge, a Roman Catholic artist, who had painted murals for Trinity Church, Boston, and the Church of the Ascension, New York City. He had also produced notable work in glass and other media.
Authority for the date: Britannica.1923
In a charge to the clergy of the Diocese of Dornakal, India, V. S. Azariah urges them to “teach, teach, teach.”
Authority for the date: Samuel Jayakumar, “Doing Mission with the Poor: an Indian Perspective.”1990
Death of British journalist Malcolm Muggeridge. He had become a Roman Catholic in his old age and wrote a skeptical life of Christ and The Third Testament, a look at the lives of some notable but eccentric Christians. It was he who also brought Mother Teresa to world attention
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.