DECEMBER 15
CASTELLIO PAID A HIGH PRICE FOR RESISTING CALVIN (1543)
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Events
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Eusebius (not to be confused with historian Eusebius of Caesarea) becomes the first bishop of Vercelli, Italy, receiving his consecration from Pope Julius I. He will be influential in having the Nicene Creed restored throughout the empire.
Authority for the date: The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1909.1543
Geneva’s Council recommends Sebastian Castellio’s appointment as preacher. He is one of the few Genevan clergy who will visit plague victims during the epidemic that year.
Authority for the date: Zweig, Stefan. The Right to Heresy or, How John Calvin Killed a Conscience: Castellio Against Calvin.1727
In his first official act as a bishop, Count Nicholas von Zinzendorf ordains Peter Bohler.
Authority for the date: Weinlich, John R. Count Zinzendorf. Nashville: Abington Press, 1956.1791
The United States Bill of Rights is ratified, guaranteeing freedom of religion among other liberties.
Authority for the date: http://www.magnacartaplus.org/usa-rights1810
Sudden death of Sarah Trimmer at Brentford. She was notable as a teacher and author of children’s works (especially Fabulous Histories, also known as Story of the Robins), magazine articles, and serious Christian books.
Authority for the date: Dictionary of National Biography1811
Death in Cape Town of missionary-physician Johannes Van Der Kemp.
Authority for the date: Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals.1870
African-American Methodists from eight local conferences meet in Jackson, Tennessee. They will found the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church.
Authority for the date: Phillips, Charles Henry. History of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America.1926
Death at Oxford, England, of hymnwriter Sarah Doudney. Her best-known hymns were “The Christian’s Good Night” and “The Master Hath Come.”
Authority for the date: Cyberhymnal.2011
Saudi Arabians arrest thirty-five Ethiopian Christians for praying in Jeddeh but charge them with meeting in a mixed company of men and women. They strip the women and search their body cavities. The Christians will be imprisoned several months until deported back to Ethiopia.
Authority for the date: Persecuted: the global assault on Christians.