AUGUST 6
DARING NUNS BROUGHT HEALTH CARE AND EDUCATION TO NEW ORLEANS (1727)
“When on the mount the Lord appeared Transfigured to the sight, His countenance was like the sun, His raiment glistened white. But dull the minds, and...”
Hymns from the Morningland: Being Translations, Centos and Suggestions from the Service Books of the Holy Eastern Church, trans. John Brownlie.
Remember the Transfiguration (1875)
He took Peter, John and James with him and went up onto a mountain to pray. As he was praying, the appearance of his fac...
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According to tradition St. Sixtus II, the Bishop of Rome, is seized while holding an illegal service in a cemetery and is executed sitting in his own chair. The emperor Valerian’s soldiers kill several deacons that same day.
Authority for the date: Brusher, Joseph. Popes Through the Ages, Third Edition. Neff-Kane, 1980.1187
After an eight-day seige, Saladin captures Beirut from the Crusaders.
Authority for the date: skepticism.org/timeline/august-history/7790-saladins-army-captures-beirut.html1221
Death of Dominic, founder of the Dominican order. His love of people was so genuine, he once offered himself as a slave to a Moor in exchange for the son of a widow.
Authority for the date: Encyclopedia Americans, 1956.1727
(some say August 7th) French Ursuline nuns arrive at New Orleans, where they will set up the first permanent Catholic charitable institution within the boundaries of what will become the United States.
Authority for the date: www.catholic.org/encyclopedia/view.php?id=84241866
Death of John Mason Neale, hymnologist and hymnwriter. Two of his best known hymns are the Christmas carols “Good Christian Men, Rejoice” and “Good King Wenceslaus.”
Authority for the date: Wells, Amos R. A Treasury of Hymn Stories. Baker, 1992.1881
Death of James Springer White, an early leader of the Seventh-day Adventists, three times president of their General Conference, and an evangelist and editor for the movement.
Authority for the date: http://www.aplib.org/?p=2721920
An extensive service is held in Atlanta’s West Mitchell Street Colored Methodist Episcopal Church for the burial of Bishop L. H. Holsey who had been a great builder and orator in the denomination.
Authority for the date: Phillips, C. H. History of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America.1930
The Orthodox priest Tikhon Fyodorovich Yeroshkin, serving in the Bulayev region of Kazakhstan, is sentenced to death by the Communists and will subsequently be shot.
Authority for the date: Moss, Vladimir. Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of the Urals, Siberia and Central Asia.1984
The Papacy condemns parts of Liberation Theology.
Authority for the date: http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19840806_theology-liberation_en.html