FEBRUARY 8
REFORMATION MOB POINTED A CANNON AT BASEL CATHEDRAL (1529)
“A terrible board meeting. We gathered in peace and started with prayer and ended with he most vehement outbreak from all sides. Pastor Everson had to...”
Fedde, Elisabeth. Diary. Translated and edited by Beulah Folkedahl.
Love Your Enemies (1828)
If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink; Be not overcome of evil; but overcome evil with good, Rom...
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Athanasius of Alexandria goes into hiding after escaping five thousand soldiers who burst into his church.
Authority for the date: Hough, Lynn Harold. Athanasius, the Hero. Cincinnati: Graham and Jennings, 1906.1250
Defeat and captivity of King Louis IX of France, “St. Louis,” in a crusade in which he had attacked Egypt.
Authority for the date: weaponsandwarfare.com/?p=36501529
Revolution breaks out in Basel, Switzerland when a Protestant mob surrounds the town hall, plants cannon, and forces the council to expel the twelve Catholic members, meanwhile destroying church pictures and statues. “We raged against the idols, and the mass died of sorrow,” wrote Reformer Oecolampadius.
Authority for the date: Smith, Preserved. The Age of the Reformation.1576
Puritan parliamentarian Peter Wentworth is sent to the Tower of London for making a rousing defense of freedom of speech.
Authority for the date: Britannica.1587
Beheading of the Catholic prisoner Mary, Queen of Scots, on the orders of the Protestant queen, Elizabeth I of England. Mary was accused of plotting to assassinate Elizabeth.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1786
Philip Quaque, an Anglican priest serving on the Gold Coast, writes an account of an uprising of slaves on a Dutch ship, and commiserates his fellow Africans on their cruel treatment by slavers.
Authority for the date: A History of Christianity in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, 1450–1990, ed. by Klaus Koschorke ...1792
Ordination of hymnwriter Joseph Swain to pastor a church in London. His most famous hymn was “O Thou in Whose Presence.”
Authority for the date: Hatfield, Edwin. The Poets of the Church. New York: Anson D. F. Randolph & Company, 1884.1883
Death of hymnwriter Mary Stanley Dana Shindler. Her best-known hymn began with the words “Flee as a bird to your mountain, thou who art weary of sin.”
Authority for the date: cyberhymnal.com1893
Confirmation in the Anglican Church of Hamu Lujonza Kaddu Mukasa. After Muslims take control of Uganda, he will lead a strong military counter-attack and win political control of the nation for Christians. As a trustee of the national church, he will advocate a policy of self-governance, self-support, and self-propagation.
Authority for the date: Dictionary of African Christian Biography.1985
Death in South Hamilton, Massachusetts, of Harold John Ockenga, neo-evangelical leader.
Authority for the date: Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals.2001
Death of Rousas John Rushdoony, a Presbyterian clergyman and theologian known as the “Father of Christian Reconstruction” who had advocated strict implementation of biblical moral law in America.
Authority for the date: World magazine.