JANUARY 20
Resolute Andrew Bryan Bought His Freedom and Founded a Church (1788)
“DEAR SIR, At a time when all your friends ought to shew their kindness, and with a character which ought to make all that know you your friends, you m...”
Boswell, James. Life of Johnson.
Gentleness Is of the Spirit (1897)
You do not know what kind of spirit you are of. Luke 9:55 NASB. Some one has said that the most spiritual people are the...
Events
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Death of Fabian, bishop of Rome, under the persecution of Emperor Decius.
Authority for the date: Meier, Gabriel. “Pope St. Fabian.” The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton, 1909.473
Death of Euthymius the Great in the desert northeast of Jerusalem. He had been an abbot in Palestine and a hermit noted for his holiness.
Authority for the date: http://oca.org/saints/lives/2014/01/20/100238-venerable-euthymius-the-great524
Bishop Simeon of Beth Ashram from the region of Arabia, travels from the Lakhmid capital Hirta d Na`man and learns of several martyrdoms, especially of holy women, which he records in various letters and wrtings.
Authority for the date: Brock, Sebastian P. and Harvey, Susan Ashbrook. Holy Women of the Syrian Orient. Berkeley: University of California1569
Death in London of English translator Miles Coverdale, who produced the first complete printed English-language Bible.
Authority for the date: Encyclopedia Britannica.1773
Thomas Charles, who will become a leader of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists, converts to Christianity while listening to Daniel Rowland preach.
Authority for the date: Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals.1862
Death at Hoddesdon, Herts, England, of hymnwriter Harriet Auber, who had led a quiet and contented life, publishing only one volume, The Spirit of the Psalms. Many of her hymns will appear in hymnbooks, especially an epiphany hymn that begins "Bright was the guiding star that led..."
Authority for the date: Nutter, Charles S. Hymn Writers of the Church.1870
Clara Swain arrives at Bareilly, India, and begins medical mission work the same day.
Authority for the date: Swain, Clara. A Glimpse of India. 1909.1881
In 1875 Fredrik Franson, an evangelist among Minnesota's Swedish immigrants and author of Mormonism Unveiled and a treatise on church growth, is ordained by the Free Church at Phelps Center.
Authority for the date: www.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/GUIDES/087.htm#31895
Death in South Euclid, Ohio, of Johann Adam Ernst, early pioneer pastor of the Missouri Synod in Canada.
Authority for the date: www.lutheranhistory.org.1952
Roman Catholic bishop Anton Vouk is ambushed, doused with gasoline in Yugoslavia, and set on fire, probably by government hit men. By quick action he manages to save his own life but will suffer from the injuries his remaining years.
Authority for the date: Hutten, Kurt. Iron Curtain Christians. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1967.