NOVEMBER 11
JOHN THE ALMSGIVER BECAME A MODEL OF CHARITY (619)
“On a certain day we were both of us sitting in the king s chamber, talking on all kinds of subjects, as usual, and it happened that I read to him a qu...”
Asser. Life of Alfred.
Christ came to fulfill the law (1888)
Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them&md...
Events
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Death of St. John the Almsgiver, Cyprus-born Patriarch of Alexandria. Upon taking office, he had found that the Monophysites held a large number of Egyptians in their sway, but through symapthy and charity, he won much of the population back to Orthodoxy.
Authority for the date: http://www.windowoncyprus.com/life_of_st_john_the_almsgiver.htm826
Death of Theodore the Studite, a champion of icons.
Authority for the date: Wikipedia.1215
The fourth Lateran Council is convoked. It officially confirms the doctrine of transubstantiation—that the substance of Eucharistic bread and wine become the physical body and blood of Christ. The council also prescribes annual confession for all Christians.
Authority for the date: Leclercq, Henri. “Fourth Lateran Council (1215).” The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Appleton, 11620
In signing the The Mayflower Compact the Pilgrims pledge themselves, “solemnly mutually in the presence of God and one another,” to “covenant, and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic.”
Authority for the date: Christian History 41 (1994).1793
William Carey lands in Calcutta, India, to begin his missionary career.
Authority for the date: home.snu.edu/~hculbert/november.htm1831
Baptist preacher Nat Turner is hanged in Jerusalem, Virginia, having led a slave insurrection that resulted in the deaths of fifty-five white people. (Whites killed two hundred or more African-Americans in retaliation.)
Authority for the date: Christian History 62 (1999).1883
Elizabeth Ryder Wheaton claims she has had a vision of Christ. Afterward she will become a social reformer and evangelist.
Authority for the date: New International Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements.1917
Death of David Lipscomb, a Disciples (Churches of Christ) editor and author, and one of the founders of Nashville Bible School, which will later be renamed Lipscomb University.
Authority for the date: http://www.discipleshistory.org/history/people/david-lipscomb1921
Death of English theologian and educator P. T. Forsyth, who wrote The Person and Place of Jesus Christ, stressing man’s need for atonement and Christ’s voluntary provision of it. He had been principal of Hackney Theological College in Hamstead, London.
Authority for the date: Encyclopedia Britannica.1938
Kate Smith first sings Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America,” a song that she thought she was not going to like. It will become her signature song.
Authority for the date: http://katesmith.org/gba.html.1951
Death of Jesuit bishop Tsiang Beda of Shanghai in a communist prison. He had refused to head the Chinese “reform” church.
Authority for the date: Hutten, Kurt. Iron Curtain Christians. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1967.