OCTOBER 6
KRITOPOULOS PROMOTED ORTHODOX FAITH AND CHRISTIAN UNITY (1627)
“You cannot evade it we are each composed of two beings one of which we see, which is temporal, which will fulfill certain works in the world and one u...”
Churchill, Seton. General Gordon: A Christian Hero. London: James Nisbet & Co., 1907.
God should be our joy (1860)
From sleep I wake, and wake to think of thee. But wherefore not with sudden glorious glee? Why burst not gracious on me...
Events
1526
Nuremberg formally accepts Albrecht Durer’s gift of The Four Apostles, also known as The Four Holy Men.
Authority for the date: http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/d/durer/1/10/5_4holy.html1528
Ursula of Munsterberg escapes her convent and becomes a Lutheran, writing a tract in support of her departure from the convent. “To say that the monastic vow is a second baptism and washes away sins, as we have heard from the pulpit, is blasphemy against God, as if the blood of Christ were not enough to wash away all sins.”
Authority for the date: Tucker, Ruth A. and Walter L. Liefeld. Daughters of the Church.1536
Tyndale is strangled and burned at Vilvoorde Castle (not far from Brussels) for his Protestant views and efforts to translate the Bible into English.
Authority for the date: Britannica.1760
Death in Surinam of Moravian missionary Theophilus Solomon Schumann from a fever. He had been known as “the apostle of the Arawaks.”
Authority for the date: Beach, Harlan P., et al. Protestant Missions1818
Evangelist James "Diego" Thompson arrives in Argentina, where government officials, anxious to improve literacy, will hire him to teach using the Lancasterian method, in which second-year students teach first-year students, and third-year students teach second-year students, multiplying the reach of a single professional teacher. Thompson will use the New Testament as his primary text, bringing spiritual renewal.
Authority for the date: Orr, Evangelical Awakenings in Latin America1892
Death of British poet laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson, who had spoken of his Christian faith in his poems.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1894
Death of Matthew Bridges, English clergyman and hymnwriter. Raised Anglican, he had joined the Roman Catholic Church under the influence of the Oxford Movement.
Authority for the date: Wells, Amos R. A Treasury of Hymn Stories. Baker, 1992.1911
Death in Lexington, Kentucky, of John William McGarvey, a preacher and educator with the Disciples, noted for careful work in his Bible commentaries.
Authority for the date: http://www.therestorationmovement.com/_states/kentucky/mcgarvey,jw.htm1919
Death of Baron Paul Nicolay, a frail, introspective French nobleman who evangelized students in Russia.
Authority for the date: Brandenburg, Hans. The Meek and the Mighty: The Emergence of the Evangelical Movement in Russia. New York: Oxford Univ1931
Iraida (birth name Ivanovna Kiprina), an Orthodox nun in Irkutsk, is sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for “conducting anti-Soviet agitation” and “maintaining links with exiled representatives of the clergy.”
Authority for the date: Moss, Vladimir. Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of the Urals, Siberia and Central Asia.1935
Death of Ivan Prokhanov, a mighty Russian evangelist, who was president of the All Russian Union of Evangelical Christians.
Authority for the date: Brandenburg, Hans. The Meek and the Mighty: The Emergence of the Evangelical Movement in Russia. New York: Oxford Univ2001
Death of Samuel Ndhlovu, a pioneer church leader and man of God in Natal. Among his final words to his daughter were, “God is in control.”
Authority for the date: Dictionary of African Christian Biography.2006
Death in New York City of Leoncia Rosado Rosseau “Mama Leo,” a Puerto Rican Pentecostal evangelist, social activist, and founder of Damascus Christian Churches. She had been noted for her drug rehabilitation program.
Authority for the date: www.prolades.com/encyclopedia/denominations/Leoncia%20Rosado.pdf2010
Prem Singh Gurung is sentenced to three years in prison for showing Christian movies in two of Bhutan’s villages.
Authority for the date: Persecuted: the global assault on Christians.