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The Free Church of Scotland Separated from the State Church (1843)
“I will not give him a minute s time more, to save his life. We have had to do with other sorts of persons, but now we have a saint to deal with and I...”
The Life of Rev. Richard Baxter: chiefly compiled from his own writings. American Tract Society.
We May Encounter God in Unexpected Places (1874)
When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of it.”...
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Traditional date on which seven elderly Christian women at Ancyra (in modern Turkey) were drowned when they refused to apostasize.
Authority for the date: Wace, Henry. Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature....526
Death of Pope St. John I, having been imprisoned in Ravenna, Italy, by Theodoric, an Arian, for not pressing the case of the Arians with the eastern emperor in Constantinople.
Authority for the date: Brusher, Joseph. Popes Through the Ages, Third Edition. Neff-Kane, 1980.1675
Death on Michigan's west coast of Jacques Marquette, Jesuit missionary to Michigan and midwestern North America.
Authority for the date: Encyclopedia Americana, 1956.1808
Death in Pennsylvania of Jacob Albright who had founded the “Dutch Methodists” of Pennsylvania, later known as the Evangelical Association.
Authority for the date: www.gcah.org/research/travelers-guide/albright-memorial-chapel.1847
Death of Orthodox monk Macarius Glukharyov who had founded a successful mission among the Altai people of Siberia. Unlike most traditional Orthodox missions, he had recruited female missionaries. The Russian Orthodox Church will eventually declare him a saint.
Authority for the date: http://orthodoxwiki.org/Macarius_(Glukharyov)1864
Death of Cesar Malan, near Geneva. He had been a Swiss Reformed pastor, evangelist, and author of more than one thousand hymns.
Authority for the date: Gordon, Ernest. Book of Protestant saints. Chicago: Moody, 1946.1896
Missionary nurse Amy Wilkes and missionary Samuel Zwemer are wed at the British Consulate in Baghdad. The Church Missionary Society, which had paid Amy’s passage to the field, will require them to reimburse the cost of her journey because she had left their work. When Zwemer raises the funds it will be said he purchased his bride in true Arab fashion.
Authority for the date: Wilson, J. Christy. “The Apostle to Islam: The Legacy of Samuel Zwemer.”1920
Funeral in Hong Kong for the Catholic priest Leong Chi Hing, long active in the care of China’s Christian community as well as its missionary and linguistic work.
Authority for the date: Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity.