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TO EVADE DEBTS, YORK’S GENTRY INCITED A MOB AGAINST JEWS (1190)
“I slept at Harissa, and left it early in the morning, to visit Ayn Warka. The roads in these mountains are bad beyond description, indeed I never befo...”
Burckhardt, John. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land.
A Judgment Day Is Coming (1875)
We shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ—Romans 14:10 (KJV). The Mogul of Turkey used to be weighed o...
Events
1072
Death of Adalbert, Archbishop of Bremen-Hamburg, and missionary to Scandanavia.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1672
Patriarch Dositheos Notaras issues a confession of faith in conjunction with the Synod of Jerusalem. In it he rejects the Calvinistic interpretation of Orthodoxy developed decades earlier by Cyril Lucaris. Although couched as his own views, sixty eight bishops sign it with him.
Authority for the date: http://www.crivoice.org/creeddositheus.html.1823
Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, a faith healer, responds to a plea from a nun in England, who has suffered from swelling in one arm that doctors have been unable to remedy. The Prince directs her to make confession on 3 May (a Roman Catholic feast for St. James the Less) at eight o'clock in the morning, partake of the Sacrament, and offer up fervent prayers. He promises to pray at the same time. The nun’s pains will immediately leave when she follows his instructions, and she eventually recovers fully. The incident will become a case study in works about the miraculous.
Authority for the date: Chambers Book of Days, 18631865
As Bernard Petitjean, a Roman Catholic priest, opens the door of his church in Nagasaki, some hidden Christians reveal themselves quietly, saying their hearts are with his. The Kakure Kirishitan had suffered two hundred years of persecution for their faith but had also assimilated Buddhist myths with their scanty Christian knowledge.
Authority for the date: A History of Christianity in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, 1450–1990, edited by Klaus Koschorke, Frueder Ludwig,1889
Death in Menton, France, of Alfred Edersheim, a Jew who had converted to Christianity and written several books. He will be remembered for The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah (1883).
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1895
Death in Kentucky of John Albert Broadus, who had trained a generation of Southern Baptist preachers.
Authority for the date: Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives. http://www.sbhla.org/bio_broadus.htm1909
Death in Wales of Marianne Hearn, a Baptist teacher, author and hymnwriter. She will be remembered for the hymn “Just As I Am Thine Own to Be.”
Authority for the date: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/h/e/a/hearn_m.htm2005
Death in Nigeria of Lawrence Olanrewaju Cole Jayesimi, who overcame the disability of blindness to operate a business, obtain advanced degrees, pastor a Baptist church, and educate the blind.
Authority for the date: Dictionary of African Christian Biography.2013
Pope Francis exclaims, “How I would like a church which is poor and for the poor!”
Authority for the date: Clemens Sedmak, “A Catholic Perspective on Evangelism and Diakonia.”