MAY 8
Questioning Calvin, Arminius Split Dutch Protestants (1604)
“10 o clock fire engines out State House bell ringing. A powerful light in the direction of St. Augustine, no doubt tis on fire. The flame ascends high...”
“The Bible Riots of 1844: A Clash of Liberty and Equality.” Bill of Rights Institute.
Christ Is Our Master (1878)
Think of God, and work as in His sight—a life of devotion, and of quiet activity and industry cannot go unblest. U...
Events
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Torture and beheading of Victor of Milan, a soldier in the Roman army, because he had revealed his Christian faith by destroying pagan altars.
Authority for the date: orthodoxwiki.org.1154
The people of York go out to meet Archbishop William, who has just returned from Rome. As the throng follows him across the River Ouse on an old wooden bridge it collapses. Many people are pitched into the water, including women and small children. William makes the sign of the cross and prays. Not one life is lost.
Authority for the date: The Troubles of Our Catholic Forefathers Related by Themselves, ed. by John Morris. (Burns and Oates, 1877).1373
Thirty-year old Julian of Norwich falls ill. Near death a few days later she will receive sixteen visions which she will later publish as Showings (also known as The Revelations of Divine Love).
Authority for the date: Christian History 83 (2004).1526
Pope Clement VII addresses a brief to the Observantine Franciscans, empowering them to receive all Lutherans desiring to return to the Catholic Church without the severe penalties decreed by Pope Leo X and others.
Authority for the date: Lea, Henry Charles. History of the Inquisition of Spain.1528
Tyndale’s Parable of Wicked Mammon is printed. A fugitive on the European continent, he smuggled pamphlets into England through merchant friends.
Authority for the date: Daniell, David. William Tyndale. Yale University Press, 2001.1543
Counter-reformer Peter Canisius is admitted into the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in Mainz on his twenty-second birthday. By living a blameless life, founding colleges, preparing a clear well-organized catechism, and writing and speaking without bitterness and ridicule, he will restore the dignity of the Catholic Church in Northern Europe where the Protestant Reformation is ascendant.
Authority for the date: Braunsberger, Otto. "Blessed Peter Canisius." Catholic Encyclopedia. Appleton, 1911.1743
Death of John Hough, bishop of Worcester, known for great generosity and also for having been the president of Magdalen College, Oxford, whom James II had ejected in his effort to restore Roman Catholic influence in England.
Authority for the date: Wilmot, John. The Life of John Hough.1792
Moravian missionary David Zeisberger establishes a mission at Oxford, Canada.
Authority for the date: Gross, Ernie. This Day in Religion.1814
Thomas Middleton, the first Bishop of Calcutta is consecrated privately because the India company fears publicity.
Authority for the date: Andrews, C.F. North India. London: A. R. Mowbray, 1908.1816
Sixty representatives of American churches and regional Bible societies who have gathered in the Garden Street Reformed Church, New York City, resolve to form the American Bible Society. Three days later they will adopt its constitution.
Authority for the date: Dwight, Henry Otis. The Centenniel History of the American Bible Society. New York: Macmillan, 1916.1891
Bishop Adjai Crowther of Nigeria draws up the Niger Delta pastorate scheme in which the Delta District is to be made a native pastorate and financed through native agency. It will be inaugurated the next January.
Authority for the date: Dictionary of African Christian Biography.1899
Edward Thomas Demby is ordained a priest while in Texas and will serve churches in Tennessee, Missouri, and Florida. He will also become the second African-American bishop (a suffragen, or assistant bishop) of the Episcopal Church in the United States.
Authority for the date: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/library/glossary/demby-edward-thomas1915
Death in Windsor, Ontario, of Henry McNeal Turner, a controversial bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He had served as the first African-American chaplain in the United States Colored Troops.
Authority for the date: http://www.turnerseminary.com/bishopturnerbio.htm.1920
Death of H. G. C. Moule, British New Testament scholar. Firmly evangelical, he had been associated with the Keswick movement.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1931
Vladyka Gurias, archbishop of Suzdal, is arrested—one of many arrests he has endured at the hands of the Soviets. He will be sentenced to three years in concentration camps for “participation in a branch of the counter-revolutionary church-monarchist organization, ‘The True Orthodox Church’.”
Authority for the date: Moss, Vladimir. Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of the Urals, Siberia and Central Asia.2013
The executive committee of the World Communion of Reformed Churches meets for a week in Ghana, homeland of its global leader, theologian and pastor Setri Nyomi.
Authority for the date: www.crcna.org/news-and-views/wcrcs-setri-nyomi-will-step-down2013
Death in California of Dallas Willard from pancreatic cancer. A college professor of philosophy and widely published author, he had been closely connected with Renovaré, an evangelical deeper-life organization.
Authority for the date: Christian History