JULY 11
The Changing Faces of the Ukraine’s Saint Olga
“It was not possible for an angel to become a priest because he was to be taken from among men and to be ordained from men in things pertaining to God....”
Arminius, James. The Works of James Arminius, vol. 1.
Leave everything with the Lord (1873)
Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him, and he will act —Psalm 37:5 (ESV). We shall find it impossible to commi...
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Athanasius leaves Alexandria in response to a summons to appear at a synod in Tyre, but when he learns that the council has made up its mind to condemn him, he will proceed to Constantinople and make his case to Emperor Constantine.
Authority for the date: Schaff, Philip. New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge.683
Assassination of John, bishop of Bergamo, in Lombardy, where he had resisted the errors of Arianism with success.
Authority for the date: Fox, John. Actes and Monuments.1382
Death of Nicolas Oresme, a French bishop who had written extensively against astrology and developed graphing techniques later used by Galileo and other scientists—among many other worthwhile contributions to knowledge.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1656
Ann Austin and Mary Fisher become the first Quakers to arrive in America but are promptly arrested. Five weeks later, they will be deported back to Barbadoes, from where they will return to England.
Authority for the date: Selleck, George A. Quakers in Boston, 1656-1964. Three centuries of Friends in Boston and Cambridge.1681
Oliver Plunkett, Archbishop of Armagh, is executed, on the accusation of treason because of his Roman Catholic faith. He becomes the last Catholic in England put to death for his faith.
Authority for the date: Moran, Patrick Francis Cardinal. “Blessed Oliver Plunket.” The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert App1713
Death of Baptist hymnwriter Joseph Stennet who produced hymnals and wrote a few hymns that are still remembered, chiefly “Another Six Day’s Work Is Done.”
Authority for the date: Burrage, Henry S. Baptist Hymnwriters and Their Hymns. Portland, ME: Brown Thurston & company, 1888.1823
Moravians celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of their mission on St. John’s Island. In those fifty years, the church had baptized 16,900 blacks.
Authority for the date: John O. Choules and Thomas Smith, The Origin and History of Missions. p.771924
Eric Liddell wins the Olympic 400 meter race in Paris after he had rejected an opportunity to run in the 100 meter race because its heats were on a Sunday: he believes it is a violation of God’s Sabbath command to run on Sunday.
Authority for the date: Wikipedia.1926
Catholic bishops in Mexico vote to suspend all public worship in protest of stringent anti-clerical laws aimed at reducing the power of the Catholic Church.
Authority for the date: Wikipedia1953
Tanganyikan Catholic bishops issue a pastoral letter titled Africans and the Christian Way of Life.
Authority for the date: Hastings. History of African Christianity.