24th November, Everyday
24th November, 380
On this day in Christian History, Emperor Theodosius deposed the Arian bishop, Demophilus, with all his clergy from the cathedral in Constantinople, transferring the cathedral church to Gregory of Nazianzus with the words: “This temple God by our hand entrusts to thee as a reward for thy pains.”
24th November, 1531
On this day in Christian History, Johannes Oecolampadius, a leader in the Swiss Reformation, died. In his lifetime, he had taken sides with Ulrich Zwingli in the dispute with Martin Luther over the Lord’s Supper.
November 24, 1555
Catholics in Locarno, Switzerland order that all Protestants who will not embrace Catholicism must go into exile.
November 24, 1572
Death in Edinburgh of John Knox, the most notable of the reformers of Scotland.
24th November, 1703
On this day in Christian History, Amidst singing and the music of an organ, viols, hautboys, trombones, trumpets, and kettledrums, Justus Falckner is ordained at Old Swede’s Church in Philadelphia—the first Lutheran pastor ordained in America.
24th November, 1836
On this day in Christian History, Ordination of Robert Murray McCheyne to the pastorate of St. Peter’s, Dundee. He will become a leader in the ensuing Scottish revival.
24th November, 1838
On this day in Christian History, Catholic missionaries François Norbert Blanchet and Rev. Modeste Demers arrive in Vancouver after crossing the North American continent to establish churches in Canada and Oregon.
24th November, 1846
On this day in Christian History, Death in Rome of Abbé Paul Macpherson, rector of the Scotch College in Rome. He had been the first Scot to head the school and had kept it alive during the Napoleonic era when its existence was threatened. He had also spent time in a French prison for trying to rescue Pope Pius VI.
24th November, 1848
Pope Pius IX flees from Rome in face of the approach of revolutionaries led by Giuseppe Mazzini and Giuseppe Garibaldi. Mildly liberal in outlook before the seizure of Rome, Pius IX thereafter becomes a reactionary.
November 24, 1850
Friedrich August Crämer arrives in Fort Wayne where he will begin years of work educating Lutherans for ministry.
24th November, 1860
On this day in Christian History, George Croly, a clergyman of the Church of England died in London. He had been a hymnologist, publishing Psalms and Hymns for Public Worship. He also wrote the hymn, “Spirit of God, Descend Upon My Heart.”
24th November, 1880
On this day in Christian History, more than 150 African American delegates meet in Montgomery, Alabama, to form the Baptist Foreign Missions Convention of the United States. Liberian missionary William W. Colley is chief organizer, and the Rev. William H. McAlpine will be elected the convention’s first president.
24th November, 1964
On this day in Christian history, Congo rebels seized American missionary, Bill McChesney. He was suffering so seriously with malaria and needed help when his friend Jim Rodgers, a British missionary, leapt into the truck with him. Despite McChesney’s illness, the rebels beat him mercilessly the whole way to the prison where they were to incarcerate him. Both men are beaten and trampled to death the following morning.
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