AUGUST 8
WHAT MADE MARY MACKILLOP A SAINT FOR AUSTRALIA? (1909)
“Indifference to religion, hatred of the priests, were the symptoms of the Revolution. God grant that the same things do not bring the same results. Th...”
Quoted in Saint-Amand, Imbert De. The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X. 1892.
We are commanded to run patiently (1886)
Holy Scripture bids us “run with patience the race that is set before us” [Hebrews 12:1]. One might have ant...
Events
1694
Death of Antonie Arnauld, a Jansenist leader who had promoted an Augustinian version of grace similar to Calvinism.
Authority for the date: Britannica.1805
The First African Baptist Church of Boston is organized with twenty members.
Authority for the date: www.pbcboston.org/about-us/our-history1852
Gustaf Palmquist baptizes three converts in the Mississippi River at Rock Island. He will form the Swedish Baptist Church which became known as The Baptist General Conference.
Authority for the date: http://www.bethel.edu/bgc-archives/tour/illinois1900
Death in Portland, Maine, of Cyrus Hamlin, who had been a missionary to Turkey and founded Roberts College.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1909
Death of Mary MacKillop, Australian nun, co-founder of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. She will be named a saint by the Roman Catholic church—Australia’s first.
Authority for the date: http://www.sosj.org.au1920
Communists convict the Orthodox priest Alexander Zaitsev of anti-Soviet agitation and handing over Soviet sympathizers to a resistance movement. He is sentenced to death and will be shot.
Authority for the date: Moss, Vladimir. Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of the Urals, Siberia and Central Asia.1929
Death in Medford, Massachusetts, of Catholic layworker and evangelist Martha Gallison Moore Avery.
Authority for the date: Hall, Timothy L. American Religious Leaders, American Biographies. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2002.