MARCH 28
ELIZABETH RUNDLE CHARLES PROTECTED HER PRIVACY WITH A PSEUDONYM (1896)
“The plague has now absolutely, we believe, entered this unhappy city. Major T. and all those connected with the residency are preparing to leave for t...”
Groves, Anthony. Journal of a Residence at Bagdad. London: James Nisbet, 1832.
The Price Love Pays (1866)
A vigorous man strolls a couple of miles along country lanes to call on an acquaintance: the act is friendly, and as suc...
Events
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Under Emperor Justinian, the churches of the East and West reconcile. They had been separated for thirty-five years during the Acacian Schism, which revolved around whether or not Christ had two natures—the human and the divine. This had been the first significant break between the churches of East and West.
Authority for the date: http://historymedren.about.com/od/medchristianity/p/acacian_schism.htm.1521
Pope Leo X condemns Luther by name on Maundy Thursday in the bull In Coena Domini, along with all his adherents.
Authority for the date: Schaff, Philip. History of the Christian Church.1538
A number of Geneva’s Catholic citizens, under the lead of François Chamois, enter a protest against the ordinance by which the city’s Protestant Confession of Faith had been adopted the year before.
Authority for the date: Schaff, Philip. History of the Christian Church.1568
Father Geronimo Ruiz Portillo, with six companions, arrives at Callao, Peru, the country’s first Jesuit missionaries. They will propagate the Christian faith among Indian populations, open churches, build schools, and develop a missionary training center.
Authority for the date: Moreno-Lacalle, Julian. “Peru.” The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911.1606
Trial of Father Garnet, a leading English Jesuit, for collusion in the Gunpowder Plot to blow up parliament. Found guilty, he will be hanged in May.
Authority for the date: Chamber's Book of Days1866
A committee gathers to raise money to support William Lloyd Garrison who had dedicated his life and energy to the effort to abolish slavery. Rev. Samuel May, Jr., will do more than anyone else to raise the funds.
Authority for the date: Grimké, Archibald H. William Lloyd Garrison.1871
John Joseph Ignatius von Döllinger addresses a letter to his archbishop refusing to subscribe to the newly defined dogma of papal infallibility, saying, “As a Christian, as a theologian, as a historian, as a citizen I cannot accept this dogma.” As a consequence Döllinger will be excommunicated in 1873.
Authority for the date: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_von_Döllinger1886
Death of theologian Richard Chenevix Trench, archbishop of Dublin and student of Bible words, noted for his work New Testament Synonyms.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1892
William Christie sails from the United States bound for Buddhist Tibet. “By the grace of God I will spend and be spent for my Savior and the salvation of those who are sitting in awful darkness and sin and misery,” he writes. He will become known as the “Apostle of Tibet.”
Authority for the date: Van Dyck, Howard. William Christie: Apostle to Tibet. Harrisburg, Pa.: Christian Publications, 1956.1896
Death of author, painter, linguist, and hymnwriter Elizabeth Rundle Charles in London, England. One of her better-known hymns was “Never Farther than Thy Cross.”
Authority for the date: Companion to the Lutheran Hymnal.1929
Death in Wellesley, Massachusetts, of hymnwriter Katherine L. Bates, author of the patriotic hymn “America the Beautiful.”
Authority for the date: cyberhymnal.org.1929
Death in England of evangelist and devotional writer Frederick Brotherton Meyer, an English Baptist clergyman.
Authority for the date: www.ccel.org.1938
Death at Oslo fylke, Norway, of Robert Parmalee Wilder, who had been an organizer of the Princeton Foreign Missionary Society and other mission societies. He had also been influential in the formation of the Student Volunteer Movement that advocated the “evangelization of the world in this generation,” and he authored several books on missions.
Authority for the date: http://www.findagrave.com2011
The Simon Wiesenthal Center posthumously awards Hiram Bingham IV their medal of valor. Bingham, an Episcopalian, had been an American diplomat in France during the early years of the Nazi occupation and violated State Department protocol by arranging escapes for persecuted Jews. He will be remembered with other Righteous Gentiles in the Episcopal Church calendar on July 19.
Authority for the date: http://www.hirambinghamrescuer.com