SEPTEMBER 15
OTHERS FLED, BUT CHISHOLM FACED A DEADLY PESTILENCE (1855)
“If we ask how we are to explain this power and action of God, the principal cause, on the sacred writers we shall find that St. Jerome in no wise diff...”
Pope Benedict XV. Spiritus Paraclitus. http://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xv/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xv_enc_15091920_spiritus-paraclitus.html
Keep your eyes on Christ (1803)
No man having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God—Luke 9:62 KJV. The eye,...
Events
1622
Father Camillo Constanzo is burned alive at Hirado, Japan, in a heroic martyrdom witnessed by thousands.
Authority for the date: Turnbull, Stephen. The Kakure Kirishitan of Japan. Japan Library, 1998.1801
Talleyrand, acting for Napoleon, and Monsignor Ercole Consalvi, acting for Pope Pius VII, sign a concordat restoring and reorganizing the Catholic Church in France but limiting its power.
Authority for the date: Britannica.1833
Unexpected death of Arthur Henry Hallam, for whom Alfred Lord Tennyson will compose one of the most famous elegies in English literature, “In Memoriam A. H. H.”—addressed to the "Strong Son of God," and stating his conviction that Christ will not leave us "in the dust," but struggling nonetheless with faith while suffering the pain of the loss of his school friend, literary defender, and fellow poet.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1853
Antoinette Brown is ordained as minister of the Congregational Church of South Butler, apparently the first woman ordained in a mainline Protestant denomination in the United States. She had trained for many years at Oberlin, but the college had refused her a degree. Eventually she will adopt Unitarian beliefs.
Authority for the date: http://www.anb.org/articles/15/15-00064.html1855
Death in Virginia of James Chisholm. Rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Portsmouth, Virginia, he had stayed to care for victims of yellow fever when most doctors fled. After gruelling efforts in behalf of the sick, he succumbed to the disease himself.
Authority for the date: http://pilotonline.com/news/portsmouth-church-celebrates-life-of-former-rector/article_6d63016c-0cfd-5907-ba54-5fc79c69c388.1877
The Pacific Garden Mission opens its world-famous rescue work in Chicago.
Authority for the date: Henry, Carl F. The Pacific Garden Mission. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 1942.1912
Patriarch Mar Abdedmassiah consecrates Mar Ivanios at St. Mary’s Church, in Niranam, India. Ivanios takes the name Mar Baselios Paulose I and is the first Catholicose of the Malankara Church. After years of conflict with the Patriarch of Antioch, the Orthodox Church of India thus becomes autocephalous (an independent church).
Authority for the date: malankaraorthodoxchurch.in.1963
A racially motivated bombing kills four African-American girls at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Ironically, the sermon that day was to be “The Love That Forgives,” based on Matthew 5:43-44.
Authority for the date: Clifton, Daniel, ed. Chronicle of the Twentieth Century; The Ultimate Record of Our Times. Dorling Kindersley Publi