OCTOBER 25
ALLEN USED HEALING TO SPREAD CHRISTIANITY IN KOREA (1885)
“Tell papa to put aside his fears I live, with God ever before me. I recognize His omnipotence, I fear His anger I acknowledge His love, too, His compa...”
Kerst, Friedrich. Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words, trans. Henry Edward Krehbiel.
Consider the dog (1698)
I give a dog a bone that’s good for nothing, for this “nothing” he loves me; he fawns on me, he guards...
Events
431
The Council of Ephesus replaces Nestorius, patriarch of Constantinople, with Maximianus, a new patriarch. Nestorius had been anathematized for holding the belief that two separate persons indwelt the incarnate Christ.
Authority for the date: http://www.ewtn.com/library/COUNCILS/EPHESUS.HTM1180
Death of John of Salisbury, who censured scholasticism.
Authority for the date: Encyclopedia Americana, 1956.1400
Death of English poet Geoffrey Chaucer, who had added a “retraction” to his Canterbury Tales, apologizing for his “worldly vanities.”
Authority for the date: Durant, Will and Ariel. The Reformation. (The Story of Civilization.) New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957.1826
Death of Phillippe Pinel, a Christian doctor who advocated humane treatment for the insane.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1867
Death of Salama, Abuna (head) of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, in prison at the mountain stronghold of Maqdala. A tactless man during a time of conflict, he had aggravated and excommunicated many opponents.
Authority for the date: Dictionary of African Christian Biography.1885
Horace Newton Allen, first resident Protestant missionary to Korea, accepts the rank of Chamoan (Mandarin) because only men of that rank can be presented to a king, and he wants to win favor for the church with the king.
Authority for the date: Paek, Nak-Chun. History of Protestant Missions in Korea, 1832-1910. Yonsei University Press, 1971.1955
Death of Nicholas (Mogilevsky) as the bells of St. Nicholas cathedral are ringing for evening service on the feast of the Iveron Icon of the Mother of God. The first metropolitan of Alma-Ata and Kazhakhstan, he had suffered harrassment and imprisonment at the hand of the Soviets most of his life.
Authority for the date: http://orthodoxwiki.org.