FEBRUARY 14
Cyril and Methodius Converted Slavs and Devised Their Alphabet (869)
“If I had a thousand pounds China should have it if I had a thousand lives, China should have them. No Not China, but Christ. Can we do too much for Hi...”
Taylor, Mrs. Howard. Hudson Taylor in Early Years: The Growth of a Soul.
A Prayer for Repentance (1878)
Enable me, O God, by the Holy Spirit’s help, truly to repent of all my sins. May I know and believe in the necessity of...
Events
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(traditional date) Valentine, a priest in Rome during the reign of Emperor Claudius II, is beheaded along the Flaminian Way.
Authority for the date: Many popular sources.1009
Martyrdom of Bruno of Querfert (also known as Boniface) and his associates by Lithuanians.
Authority for the date: Meier, Gabriel. “St. Bruno of Querfurt.” The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: R. Appleton, 1910.&l1532
Calvin acquires the degree of Licentiate (Bachelor) of Laws at Orleans.
Authority for the date: Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge.1556
Protestant reformer Archbishop Thomas Cranmer of Canterbury is degraded from his office with humiliating ceremonies following the rise of the Roman Catholic Mary I to power. Cranmer had incurred the enmity of Mary years earlier when he granted King Henry VIII his divorce from Mary’s mother Catherine.
Authority for the date: Peoples' Chronology.1568
Turks in Larissa, Greece, martyr the Orthodox monk Damian after days of torture, complaining that his teaching causes sales to drop on Sunday.
Authority for the date: http://full-of-grace-and-truth.blogspot.com1596
Archbishop John Whitgift begins building a “hospital” (a home for the elderly and infirm) at Croydon from his own resources. He will also build and endow a free-school and a chapel. Over the entrance of the hospital will be the inscription: QUI DAT PAUPERI NON INDIGEBIT [Who gives to the poor will not lack]. Although charitable, he was a high churchman who favored ritual and consequently persecuted Puritans who opposed it.
Authority for the date: Chambers Book of Days, 18631805
Harvard confirms Henry Ware as Hollis Professor of Divinity. Because he is a Unitarian, denying the full divinity of Christ, Congregationalist teachers, loyal to the doctrine of the Trinity, will begin withdrawing from the school.
Authority for the date: oasis.lib.harvard.edu.1942
Chen Sulan is shipwrecked and captured by Japan’s secret police while fleeing Japanese invaders of China. A Methodist, he had fought against the Chinese government’s monopolistic sale of opium and had established an anti-opium clinic that rehabilitated close to seven thousand addicts. He had also been a founder of the Chinese YMCA. After World War II, he will set up a trust that funds the Scripture Union and Methodist groups.
Authority for the date: Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity.1953
Andrew Kagura of Kenya is martyred for his outspokeness against the Mau Maus.
Authority for the date: Dewar, Diana. All for Christ.