SEPTEMBER 17
Hildegard of Bingen: Sybil of the Rhine (1179)
“At the last General Convention, at Philadelphia, it was proposed by Bishop White, and agreed to by me, that the eldest Bishop present to be reckoned f...”
Date is from Appleton’s Encyclopedia. Quote is from Seabury, Samuel and Eben Edwards Beardsley. Life and Correspondence of the Right Reverend Samuel Seabury, D.D.
Some Christians do not comprehend faith (1888)
May [you] have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is th...
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[or the 13th] Consecration of the Church of the Anastasis (Church of the Resurrection), commissioned by Emperor Constantine at the reputed site of Christ’s Resurrection. The church will not be completed for about fifty more years.
Authority for the date: Margarita Torres Sevilla and Jose Miguel Ortega del Rio, Kings of the Grail, p. 581252
Dedication of the Cathedral in Ely, England. King Henry III and Prince Edward are present.
Authority for the date: Sweeting, W.D. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely.1485
Assassination of the fierce inquisitor Peter Arbues at Saragossa, Spain. He is struck from behind while at prayer in the cathedral. Later the church will declare him a saint.
Authority for the date: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11772b.htm1525
Valentine Crautwald receives in a vision the Schwenckfelder view of the Eucharist: “spiritual grain” eaten by faith grows in a believer, transforming him or her toward the full image of God, the person of Christ.
Authority for the date: Christian History 21 (1989).1564
Don Gaspar Centellas of Valencia, a gentleman of birth and culture, is burned to death, having refused to recognize the Roman Church and pope as the Church of God.
Authority for the date: Lea, Henry Charles. History of the Inquisition of Spain.1575
Death of Swiss reformer Heinrich Bullinger. He had succeeded Zwingli at Zurich and because of the hospitality he extended to English exiles, had gained influence with the English Puritans.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1581
Domingo Salazar, first bishop of the Philippines, and his Jesuit companions reach Manila, having walked overland the last two months because winds were unfavorable for sailing.
Authority for the date: Tuggy. The Philippine Church1595
After extracting as many concessions as possible, Pope Clement VIII grants absolution to Henry IV of France, formerly a Protestant, so that he will be able to rule France.
Authority for the date: "Clement VIII." Britannica.1621
Death in Rome of Cardinal Robert Bellarmine, celebrated Jesuit defender of Roman Catholic teaching against Protestant theologies. He had also delivered the admonition to Galileo to no longer teach the heliocentric theory.
Authority for the date: Catholic Encyclopedia.1644
(old calendar) English authorities hang a Jesuit priest, Ralph Corbie (or Corbington), in London for adhering to his faith.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1683
Death of John Campanius, Lutheran missionary to Indians.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1717
The first synod of the Presbyterian Church in America meets in Philadelphia.
Authority for the date: Slosser, Gaius Jackson, ed. They Seek a Country. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1955.1792
Consecration of Thomas John Claggett at Trinity Church, New York City, by Bishops Samuel Seabury, William White, Samuel Provoost, and James Madison. He is the first Episcopal bishop consecrated in America, the others having obtained consecration in England or Scotland.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1804
Santa Ynez Mission is founded in California. Working here, Father Arroyo will prepare a grammar of the language of the Indians of the San Juan region.
Authority for the date: www.missionsantaines.org/home.html1833
Upon her release from prison, a woman walks several miles to Kaiserswerth to ask pastor Theodore Fliedner for help and is given a small outbuilding as a temporary shelter, inaugurating what will become the Kaiserswerth institutions.
Authority for the date: Bancroft, Jane M. Deaconesses in Europe. New York: Hunt & Eaton, 1890.1913
International Union of Gospel Missions (IUGM) is founded, uniting in cooperation many groups which are operating rescue missions.
Authority for the date: www.agrm.org1942
Romanian authorities sentence Voicu Rusin to twenty-five years of forced labor for refusing to abandon his Pentecostal faith.
Authority for the date: http://jurnalulpleroma.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/2004-01-iun-4-tipei.pdf1959
Ground-breaking ceremony for the Adventist College of West Africa in Nigeria, that will train thousands of Africans and later become Babcock University.
Authority for the date: Dictionary of African Christian Biography.