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Love keeps Christ in its thoughts (1864)

You love him even though you have never seen him —1 Peter 1:8 (New Living Translation). If we really love Christ,...

Events

458

Death of Patriarch Anatolius of Constantinople who had sided with Cyril of Alexandria and Pope Leo I against Nestorianism, Eutychianism, and other theological controversies of that day.

Authority for the date: Wikipedia.

529

The Synod of Orange convenes in Arausio, France. Caesarius of Arles presides over the council of thirteen bishops. He successfully submits a declaration on grace and free will outlining and upholding several of St. Augustine’s doctrines on the nature of grace. Pope Boniface II will formally approve the documents from this synod in 531.

Authority for the date: Weber, Nicholas. “Councils of Orange.” The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911.

1448

Jean de Lastic, Grand Master of Rhodes, writes Charles VII, King of France from Ethiopia, telling about Zãr’a Ya’iqob’s victories over the Saracens. His letter refers to Prester John, a legendary Christian king who until then had been thought to rule in Asia but now will be assumed to rule in Africa.

Authority for the date: Taddesse, Tamrat. Church and state in Ethiopia. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972.

1721

Hans Egede, Lutheran missionary, lands in Greenland with a party of forty-six people.

Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.

1800

Pope Pius VII returns the papacy to Rome. His predecessor Pius VI had been removed in 1798 by a French general, dying in captivity.

Authority for the date: Paul Collins, Absolute Power

1834

Calista Vinton sails for Burma where she will contribute most of the hymns used in the Sgau Karen hymnal.

Authority for the date: Burrage, Henry S. Baptist Hymnwriters and Their Hymns. Portland, ME: Brown Thurston & company, 1888.

1880

Prussia declares that clergy are subordinate to the state.

Authority for the date: Putnam, George Haven. Tabular Views of Universal History. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1916.

1897

Death of David Brown, who had been prominent as a Christian author, educator, and church leader in Scotland. He is best known as the coauthor of the Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Commentary on the Old and New Testaments, for which he had written the sections on the Gospels, Acts, and the Epistle to the Romans.

Authority for the date: New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge.

1900

Seventy-one Chinese Christians are martyred by Boxers at Shouyang. The number includes eighteen women and eleven children.

Authority for the date: Paul Hattaway, China’s Christian Martyrs

1907

Pope St. Pius X, in his encyclical Lamentabili, formally condemns the modernist intellectual movement in the Catholic Church.

Authority for the date: www.papalencyclicals.net.

1960

Death of Alfred H. Ackley, a prolific writer of hymns, remembered primarily for the tune HE LIVES.

Authority for the date: Cyberhymnal.

2011

Near Munugodu, India, four Hindus attack and repeatedly stab Pentecostal pastor G. N. Paul, claiming he forcibly converts Hindus to Christianity.

Authority for the date: Persecuted: the global assault on Christians.

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