OCTOBER 24
SATTHIANADHAN: INDIA'S WOMEN CAN TEACH AND LEARN (1894)
“That those of the Confession of Augsburg Lutherans , and particularly the Inhabitants of Oppenheim, shall be put in possession again of their Churches...”
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Stone walls do not a prison make (1899)
It is because of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain—Acts 28:20 (NIV). Bound, yet with a heart enfr...
Events
1537
Death at Hampton Court of Jane Seymour, consort of Henry VIII, two weeks after giving birth to Prince Edward, who will promote the Protestant Reformation in England.
Authority for the date: http://tudorhistory.org/seymour/1648
The Peace of Westphalia ends central Europe’s Thirty Years War, extending equal rights to Catholics and Protestants.
Authority for the date: ” Treaty of Westphalia.” http://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/westphal.asp1655
Death in Paris of Pierre Gassendi, a Roman Catholic priest who had also been a mathematician, scientific experimenter, and philosopher of considerable renown, and who had revived the atomic theory of Epicurus.
Authority for the date: http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/gassendi.html1784
Richard Johnson receives a royal warrant appointing him chaplain to the settlement of New South Wales, its first. He will struggle to raise moral standards and convert convicts. He and his wife will teach between 150 and 200 children and establish an orphanage.
Authority for the date: https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/johnson-richard-22751822
At St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, Archbishop William McGee makes his first charge to his clergy, attacking dissenters and Roman Catholics.
Authority for the date: Marion Field, John Nelson Darby: Prophetic P1826
Death of Ann Hasseltine Judson, wife of missionary Adoniram Judson. In 1812, the pair had married just twelve days before they set sail to India as missionaries. Forced from India, they went to Burma, where Adoniram was eventually imprisoned during a Burmese war with Britain. Ann had carried food to him. Exhausted by heroic efforts to save his life, she died at the age of thirty-seven.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1869
John Paton observes the Lord’s Supper with his first converts on Aniwa in the New Hebrides.
Authority for the date: Morgan, Robert J. On This Day. Nelson, 1997.1870
Death of St. Anthony Claret, Roman Catholic missionary in Catalan.
Authority for the date: Delany, John. Saints for All Seasons. New York: Doubleday, 1979.1894
Death in India of Anna Arokium Satthianadhan, who had inaugurated Zenana teaching (instructing Hindu women about Christianity in their restricted courtyards), a practice later adopted by many missions to India.
Authority for the date: Satthianadhan and Murdoch, Sketches of India1992
Death of Archbishop Michael of Toledo, who had helped bring into existence the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.
Authority for the date: orthodoxwiki.org.2005
Death in Detroit, Michigan, of Rosa Parks, whose Christian faith had given her the courage to resist segregation in Alabama. She was a member of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Authority for the date: Metaxas. Seven Women and the Secret of Their