JUNE 4
BISHOP QUIRINUS LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR CHRIST (308)
“We are now in Connecticut and never out of sight of a house and sometimes we have a view of many churches and steeples, built very neatly of wood eith...”
Asbury, Francis. The Journal of the Rev. Francis Asbury, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
God’s Way Is not Man’s Way (1875)
God’s way is different from man’s way, but it is always best! Take, for instance, the composition of the Bib...
Events
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Quirinus, bishop of Siscia, after imprisonment, tortures, and mockery is drowned in a river (in the region that will become Poland) where he preaches until he sinks.
Authority for the date: Foxe, John. Actes and Monuments.1133
Lothaire II of Saxony receives the imperial crown from Pope Innocent II whom he has just established on the papal throne by a show of armed force.
Authority for the date: Schaff, Philip. History of the Christian Church.1571
An executioner in Toledo, Spain, tries to spare Doctor Sigismondo Arquer from burning alive for his Protestant beliefs by garroting him, but the onlooking crowd riots at this mercy. In the melee, Arquer is seriously injured and is already half dead when committed to the flames.
Authority for the date: Lea, Henry Charles. A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages. Macmillan, 1922.1639
Fundamental Orders of New Haven are adopted. These had been proposed by Rev John Davenport and are an extraordinary example of the religiously-inspired formation of a government.
Authority for the date: Macdonald, William. Select Charters and Other Documents Illustrative of American History, 1606-1775. New York: The1663
Death at St John's, Oxford, of Archbishop William Juxon. As a priest he had attended King Charles I of England at his execution, for which service, after the Restoration, Charles II appointed him Archbishop of Canterbury.
Authority for the date: Britannica1775
John Carmichael of Brandywine, Pennsylvania, preaches a sermon saying war in self-defense is lawful. Sermons of this character helped form American opinion at the time of its Revolutionary War.
Authority for the date: Noll, Mark A. America’s God. Oxford, 2002.1883
Death of “Righteous Vera,” a girl who had begun early to seek the Lord and practice asceticism. Her twin sister Lyubov died four days later. The twelve-year-olds were visiting the Russian monastery at Optina.
Authority for the date: http://www.roca.org/1931
Carl McIntire is ordained and installed at the Chelsea Presbyterian Church in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He will become well-known as a radio broadcaster delivering fundamentalist and anti-Communist views.
Authority for the date: Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals.1948
The first radio broadcast of the Far East Broadcasting Company’s new Manila station goes on the air, with the staff singing “All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name.”
Authority for the date: Morgan, Robert J. On This Day. Nelson, 1997.1985
The Supreme Court of the United States rules against an Alabama law requiring a moment of silence (i.e.: prayer) in public schools.
Authority for the date: Clifton, Daniel, ed. Chronicle of the Twentieth Century. Dorling Kindersley Publishing, 1995.1995
At the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Brussels, Pope John Paul II beatifies Father Damien, the priest who had given his life in Hawaii for outcasts suffering leprosy.
Authority for the date: Wikipedia.