8th October, 451
On this day in Christian History, the Council of Chalcedon opens to deal with the Eutychians, who believe Christ’s divinity swallowed up his humanity “like a drop of wine in the sea.”
8th October, 1559
On this day in Christian History, Don Carlos de Seso Died for the Gospel in Spain.
8th October, 1664
On this day in Christian History, Benjamin Keach was hauled before a magistrate and accused of scandalous behaviour for printing a Baptist primer for children.
8th October, 1708
On this day in Christian History, John Blow was buried at Westminster Abbey, where he had been organist. He had composed many lovely religious works such as “Salvador Mundi.”
8th October, 1744
On this day in Christian History, Lawyer Elisha Paine, imprisoned in Windham, Connecticut, for preaching illegally, writes his wife to say he preached on the prison grounds, with the result many people came under spiritual conviction.
8th October, 1797
On this day in Christian History, Jacob Albright, an evangelist among German speakers, preaches his first known sermon - in an open marketplace at Shafferstown, Pennsylvania. His text is Hebrews 2:3, “How will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?” The gathering is broken up by a mob.
8th October, 1853
On this day in Christian History, Miles Justin Knowlton was ordained as a Baptist minister. Soon afterward he sailed as a missionary for Ningpo, China. In 1871, while on a visit to the United States, Knowlton wrote a prize-winning essay titled "China as a Mission Field." He also delivered a lecture series at several theological seminaries that was published under the title The Foreign Missionary, His Field, and His Work.
8th October, 1871
On this day in Christian History, Ex-con Jerry McAuley opens the Water Street Mission of New York, one of the first rescue missions in the world.
8th October, 1888
On this day in Christian History, Russian Emperor Alexander III and several family members attend a stone-laying ceremony for the St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Baku, Azerbaijan, where the Tsar hopes to encourage the spread of Russian Orthodoxy. The church, designed to hold 1,700 worshipers, will be dedicated exactly one year later. Baku churches with the same name had been built in 1815 and 1858.
8th October, 1932
On this day in Christian History, Joseph Nakabaale Kiwanuka arrives in Algiers to make his novitiate with the Missionaries of Africa. He will go on to become the first native African to be ordained a Catholic bishop in the twentieth century.
8th October, 2008
On this day in Christian History, Mrs. Yukiko Sugihara died. In her lifetime, she had helped her husband, Chiune Sugihara, to rescue thousands of Jews from Lithuania during the World War II that lasted between 1939 and 1945.
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