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Stone walls do not a prison make (1899)

It is because of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain—Acts 28:20 (NIV). Bound, yet with a heart enfr...

Events

1537

Death at Hampton Court of Jane Seymour, consort of Henry VIII, two weeks after giving birth to Prince Edward, who will promote the Protestant Reformation in England.

Authority for the date: http://tudorhistory.org/seymour/

1648

The Peace of Westphalia ends central Europe’s Thirty Years War, extending equal rights to Catholics and Protestants.

Authority for the date: ” Treaty of Westphalia.” http://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/westphal.asp

1655

Death in Paris of Pierre Gassendi, a Roman Catholic priest who had also been a mathematician, scientific experimenter, and philosopher of considerable renown, and who had revived the atomic theory of Epicurus.

Authority for the date: http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/gassendi.html

1822

At St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, Archbishop William McGee makes his first charge to his clergy, attacking dissenters and Roman Catholics. 

Authority for the date: Marion Field, John Nelson Darby: Prophetic P

1826

Death of Ann Hasseltine Judson, wife of missionary Adoniram Judson. In 1812, the pair had married just twelve days before they set sail to India as missionaries. Forced from India, they went to Burma, where Adoniram was eventually imprisoned during a Burmese war with Britain. Ann had carried food to him. Exhausted by heroic efforts to save his life, she died at the age of thirty-seven.

Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.

1869

John Paton observes the Lord’s Supper with his first converts on Aniwa in the New Hebrides.

Authority for the date: Morgan, Robert J. On This Day. Nelson, 1997.

1870

Death of St. Anthony Claret, Roman Catholic missionary in Catalan.

Authority for the date: Delany, John. Saints for All Seasons. New York: Doubleday, 1979.

1894

Death in India of Anna Arokium Satthianadhan, who had inaugurated Zenana teaching (instructing Hindu women about Christianity in their restricted courtyards), a practice later adopted by many missions to India.

Authority for the date: Satthianadhan and Murdoch, Sketches of India

1992

Death of Archbishop Michael of Toledo, who had helped bring into existence the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.

Authority for the date: orthodoxwiki.org.

2005

Death in Detroit, Michigan, of Rosa Parks, whose Christian faith had given her the courage to resist segregation in Alabama. She was a member of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Authority for the date: Metaxas. Seven Women and the Secret of Their

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