842: The
Medieval Iconoclastic Controversy ended, when a Council in Constantinople formally
reinstated the veneration of images (icons) in the churches. (This debate over icons is
often considered the last event which led to the Great Schism between the Eastern and
Western Churches.)
1568: Death of Miles Coverdale, 80, translator
and publisher of the first complete Bible to be printed in English (1535). Coverdale was
also editor of the Great Bible of 1539.
1812: Congregational missionaries Adoniram
Judson, 23, and his wife Ann, 22, first sailed from New England to Calcutta, India.
(Judson eventually concentrated his labors in Burma.)
1869: Death of Elizabeth Clephane, 39, an
orphaned Scottish poet who left the Church with two hauntingly beautiful hymns:
"Beneath the Cross of Jesus" and "The Ninety and Nine." (All of
Clephane's poetry was published posthumously.)
1942: Presidential Executive Order 9066 began
placing 100,000 persons of Japanese ancestry (of which over 2/3 were American-born
citizens) into ten "relocation centers" for the duration of WWII. During
confinement within the armed, barbed-wire surroundings, however, prayer meetings, Bible
studies and worship services were held.
Source: William D. Blake. Almanac
of the Christian Church, Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987. Additional
information supplied by the author. Contact via E-mail: William D. Blake. (pilgrimwb@aol.com)
