28th November, 764
On this day in Christian History, Execution of Saint Stephen the Younger, during the reign of Emperor Constantine V. Stephen was an advocate of the use of icons whereas Constantine was strongly opposed to them.
28th November, 1568
On this day in Christian History, John of the Cross makes his profession as a Carmelite. He will write his famous “Spiritual Canticle” while imprisoned by superiors who reject his reforms.
28th November, 1628
On this day in Christian History, an English preacher, John Bunyan, author of more than 60 books, including the famous Pilgrim's Progress, was born in Elstow, England
28th November, 1757
On this day in Christian history, the English Christian mystic, William Blake was born in London. A poet, sculptor, and engraver, he was unschooled but fascinated with Milton, Shakespeare, Dante, and the Bible. He experienced visions all his life, beginning at age 4 when he saw God looking in his window.
28th November, 1858
On this day in Christian history, Wilhelm Weist, a Pastor of the German Baptist Church in Stolzenberg in East Prussia, baptizes Gottfried Alf and eight others in Poland, the beginning of the Polish Baptist Church. Alf had been a Lutheran school teacher. Required to read sermons for the Lutherans, he came under spiritual conviction and gradually developed Baptist views for which he first lost his teaching job, and then was thrown off his farm. He became an influential revival leader.
28th November, 1863
On this day in Christian History, the first annual national Thanksgiving Day is celebrated. Back in October, President Lincoln had proclaimed the fourth Thursday of each November from that time forward as a national day of thanks.
28th November, 1902
On this day in Christian History, Joseph Parker, a leading non-conformist Pastor of the nineteenth century, died. In his lifetime, he produced a twenty-five volume People’s Bible and many other notable works.
28th November, 1904
On this day in Christian History, American Congregational clergyman, Jeremiah Eames Rankin, died. It was him who wrote the hymns “God Be With You ’Til We Meet Again” and “Tell it to Jesus.”
28th November, 1932
On this day in Christian History, Elizabeth Wordsworth held her last Bible class, speaking on Psalm 45, “The king's daughter is all glorious within, her clothing is of wrought gold.” That evening she collapsed and that led to her death a couple of days later. An author and educator, she had been the founding principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and the founder of St. Hugh’s Hall, another women’s College at Oxford. In her ninety-two years she had written many books and hymns. She was the daughter of Christopher Wordsworth, Bishop of Lincoln, and great-niece of the famed poet William Wordsworth.
28th November, 1940
On this day in Christian History, George Jeffreys and several other ministers gather to form the short-lived Bible Pattern Church Fellowship, a Pentecostal denomination.
28th November, 1978
On this day in Christian History, an Independent Baptist missionary James Dearmore was ambushed in Rhodesia by about 50 terrorists. Though suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, he survived.
28th November, 1984
On this day in Christian History, Anna Breneman Haagen died. In his lifetime, he was an outstanding missionary to the Gujarati-speaking people of India.
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