NOVEMBER 18
BARON PAUL NICOLAY HEADED A CHRISTIAN OUTREACH IN RUSSIA (1899)
“Seventeen inhabitants of Merindol shall be burnt to death they were all the heads of families in that place their wives, children, relatives, and fami...”
Wylie, J.A. The History of Protestantism. London, Paris, and New York: Cassell Petter & Galpin.
Show mercy to receive mercy (1847)
May the Lord show mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains....
Events
1302
Pope Boniface VIII publishes the bull Unam Sanctam, “One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church” outside of which there is “neither salvation nor remission of sins,” making subjugation to the pope a requirement for salvation.
Authority for the date: Freemantle, Anne. The Papal Encyclicals in their Historical Context. New York: Mentor, 1956.1525
Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz and George Blaurock are sentenced to bread and water in the tower by Zwingli and other Zurich authorities because of their Anabaptist beliefs and practices.
Authority for the date: Bender, Harold S. Conrad Grebel. Scottsdale, PA: 1971.1827
Sixteen-year-old Henry Alford, who will become a theologian, textual critic, hymnwriter, and dean of Canterbury, writes in his Bible, “I do this day, as in the presence of God and my own soul, renew my covenant with God, and solemnly determine henceforth to become His, and to do His work as far as in me lies.”
Authority for the date: Alford, Henry and Fanny. Life, Journal and Letters of Henry Alford. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1873.1838
Saxon immigrants sail from Bremen on the ships Olbers and Amalia bound for America where they will form Lutheran churches and colleges in Midwestern states.
Authority for the date: ” On This Day in Lutheran History.” http://www.lutheranhistory.org/history/onthisday.asp?askMonth=November1852
Death at St. Charles, Missouri, of Rose Philippine Duchesne, a pioneer in Catholic education in the Louisiana territory. Late in life she had worked with American Indians, earning the nickname Quah-kah-ka-num-ad, “Woman-Who-Prays-Always.” Pope John Paul II will canonize her in 1988.
Authority for the date: http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_19880703_duchesne_en.html1899
Baron Paul (Pavel) Nicolay brings the St. Petersberg Student Christian Movement into being. Paul will organize discussions, give lectures, and preach in university cities on the need to make Christianity a practical reality in life. The movement will be crushed by the Communists in 1917.
Authority for the date: Brandenburg, Hans. The Meek and the Mighty: The Emergence of the Evangelical Movement in Russia. New York: Oxford U