MARCH 13
Pope Felix III Confronted Heresy and Divided the Church (483)
“One thing you must grant to these ideologues They know that they are in a cultural war, as those on the other side often do not. To the anointed of ac...”
Thomas Sowell “The Right to Infiltrate,” Forbes (March 13, 1995); 74.
Jesus Volunteered to Suffer (1875)
For Christ also suffered once for sins —1 Peter 3:18 (NIV).I was reading this morning of a sailor who had just got ashor...
Events
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Roman Emperor Marcian issues an edict against the Eutychians, whose teachings are seen to undermine Christ’s humanity and his ability to stand in our place.
Authority for the date: Wace, Henry. A Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature...536
Pope Agapetus issues a synodical letter in which he announces he has deposed Anthimus, the monophysite patriarch of Constantinople. Emperor Justinian I appoints Menas patriarch of Constantinople in his place. Menas will be actively engaged in the issues of his day as an opponent of monophysitism and of Origen’s teachings, but will be largely subservient to the Roman popes.
Authority for the date: Betz, Hans Dieter, et al. Religion Past and Present.846
Eighteen years after the death in exile of Patriarch Nicephorus, who had defended the use of icons, Empress Theodora has his body brought back to Constantinople with great pomp.
Authority for the date: http://orthodoxwiki.org/Nicephorus_I_of_Constantinople.857
Ruderic and Salomon are executed in Cordoba on the charge of apostatizing from Islam.
Authority for the date: Haines, Charles Reginald. Christianity and Islam in Spain.1569
At the Battle of Jarnac, Marshal Gaspard de Tavannes defeats the Huguenots, whose leader, the prince de Condé, is killed in the aftermath.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1604
Death in Rome of Cardinal d’Ossat who had served as a diplomat in behalf of France. He was instrumental in reconciling King Henry IV, formerly a Huguenot, to the pope, and his well-crafted diplomatic letters will serve as models to aspiring civil servants.
Authority for the date: Catholic Encyclopedia1785
At the Burg-theatre, Vienna, Mozart’s cantata Davidde Penitente receives its first performance. This is called a “half-mass” because its ten movements include a Kyrie and Gloria. The work had been commissioned by the committee of the Society for the Relief of the Widows and Orphans of Musicians.
Authority for the date: Upton, George P. The Standard Cantatas. Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1888.1895
Death in England of Robert William Dale who worked vigorously to improve health, housing, sanitation and living conditions in Birmingham, England. The clergyman had been an advocate of free public education, social improvement, the extension of the voting franchise, the recognition of trades unions, and understanding the links between poverty and crime.
Authority for the date: Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals.1904
Located on the Argentina-Chile border as a memorial to peace, the bronze Christ of the Andes statue is dedicated.
Authority for the date: Maus, Cynthia Pearl. Christ and the Fine Arts. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1938.1925
The State of Tennessee passes House Bill No. 185, the “Butler Bill” prohibiting any teaching that contradicts the Genesis creation account. It will be signed by the governor on March 25th and will lead to the Scopes Monkey Trial the following July.
Authority for the date: Public Acts of the State of Tennesse.1942
Missionaries Russell and Darlene Diebler are separated by Japanese conquerors. His last words to her are, "Remember one thing my dear, God said that he would never leave us or forsake us." She will not see her husband again in this world but remembrance of his words will comfort her many times in subsequent suffering.
Authority for the date: Darlene Diebler Rose Evidence Not Seen, p. 452002
Death of Yusuf Jatau, a popular radio preacher in the Hausa language and for fifty years a mission leader of the Nigerian Baptist Convention. He had extended Baptist work in the northern regions of the country, many times escaping death at the hands of enemies only through the grace of God.
Authority for the date: Dictionary of African Christian Biography.2012
Although it is a government-approved church, the Three-Self Church in Dafeng County, Jangsu Province, China, is demolished by the Chinese government. A Christian woman at the site is beaten so severely her back is broken.
Authority for the date: Persecuted: the global assault on Christians.2013
Conclave elects Argentine-born Jorge Mario Bergoglio to be pope of the Roman Catholic Church, the first pope from the Americas. He takes the name Francis.
Authority for the date: Wikipedia.