Historical Writings

Death of Patriarch Anatolius of Constantinople who had sided with Cyril of Alexandria and Pope Leo I against Nestorianism, Eutychianism, and other theological controversies of that day.

The Synod of Orange convenes in Arausio, France. Caesarius of Arles presides over the council of thirteen bishops. He successfully submits a declaration on grace and free will outlining and upholding several of St. Augustine's doctrines on the nature of grace. Pope Boniface II will formally approve the documents from this synod in 531.

Jean de Lastic, Grand Master of Rhodes, writes Charles VII, King of France from Ethiopia, telling about Zãr'a Ya'iqob's victories over the Saracens. His letter refers to Prester John, a legendary Christian king who until then had been thought to rule in Asia but now will be assumed to rule in Africa.

Hans Egede, Lutheran missionary, lands in Greenland with a party of forty-six people.

English founder of Methodism John Wesley wrote in a letter: 'One who lives and dies in error, or in dissent from our Church, may yet be saved; but one who lives and diesin sin must perish.'

Pope Pius VII returns the papacy to Rome. His predecessor Pius VI had been removed in 1798 by a French general, dying in captivity.

Calista Vinton sails for Burma where she will contribute most of the hymns used in the Sgau Karen hymnal.

Birth of Lucius H. Holsey in Columbus, Georgia. Denied the privilege of attending school because he is of African heritage, he will acquire an education anyhow, and become the fourth bishop of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church.

Prussia declares that clergy are subordinate to the state.

Birth of Don R. Falkenberg, founder in 1923 of the Mid-West Businessmen's Council of the Pocket Testament League. In 1967 the name of this evangelical agency was changed toBible Literature International.

Death of David Brown, who had been prominent as a Christian author, educator, and church leader in Scotland. He is best known as the coauthor of the Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Commentary on the Old and New Testaments, for which he had written the sections on the Gospels, Acts, and the Epistle to the Romans.

Seventy-one Chinese Christians are martyred by Boxers at Shouyang. The number includes eighteen women and eleven children.

Pope St. Pius X, in his encyclical 'Lamentabili,' formally condemned the'modernist' intellectual movement, as it exhibited itself in the Catholic Church.

Pope John XXIII, in his encyclical 'Ad Petri Cathedram,' expressed the hope that non-Catholic Christians would see in the upcoming Vatical II Ecumenical Council 'a warminvitation to seek and find unity.'

Death of Alfred H. Ackley, a prolific writer of hymns, remembered primarily for the tune HE LIVES.

Thirty-four years after the end of World War II, the West German government voted to continue prosecution of Nazi war criminals by removing the statute of limitations onmurder.

Near Munugodu, India, four Hindus attack and repeatedly stab Pentecostal pastor G. N. Paul, claiming he forcibly converts Hindus to Christianity.