December 22, 1560
After three years of imprisonment with torture, Julian “The Little” Hernandez is burned to death in Seville, Spain, for distributing Spanish language Bibles and Protestant literature and rejecting fasts and mortifications as a means of salvation.
22nd December, 1646
On this day in Christian History, Death of Peter Mogila, Metropolitan of Kiev, who had established an educational program that defended Orthodox teachings and had written many books that would remain influential into the twenty-first century, including a Russian catechism.
December 22, 1838
John Hunt and his wife Hanna Summers arrive in the Fiji Islands as missionaries. Hunt will bring about the conversion of the Fijians and help end the practice of cannibalism.
December 22, 1850
Henry Budd becomes the first person of First Nations ancestry ordained to the Anglican priesthood. He will work a large area of Western Canada and translate the Bible and Prayer Book into the Cree language.
22nd December, 1854
On this day in Christian History, Death in Oxford of Martin Joseph Routh, who until three years earlier had been president of Magdalen College. A notable scholar who compiled and published the works of early church fathers, he was in his hundredth year when he died, but clear-minded—and the owner of a personal library of 16,000 volumes, some very rare.
22nd December, 1871
On this day in Christian History, James Barnett Taylor, a Baptist clergyman, died in Richmond Virginia. In his lifetime, he was especially noted for his role in creating and preserving Richmond College. He had also written a biography of Lott Cary.
22nd December, 1888
On this day in Christian History, Death in New York City of Isaac Hecker, an influential American convert to Roman Catholicism, who had founded the order of Paulists in the United States and edited Catholic World.
22nd December, 1917
On this day in Christian History, Italian-born Francesca Xavier Cabrini, founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart, dies in Chicago’s Columbus Hospital. In 1946 she will be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church, becoming the first American citizen declared a saint.
22nd December, 1994
On this day in Christian History, Gilberto Orellana, an El Salvadorean Christian composer teaching in Morocco, is arrested along with five Muslims he has led to Christ. An international outcry obtains his release after he is sentenced to eight months in prison. His converts also face prison, but three recant.
22nd December, 2011
Authorities close a Baptist church in Neftechala, Azerbaijan, saying “without registration you cannot pray.”
December 22, 2024
On this day in Christian history, Pastor Dr. Jerry Eze was conferred with the Award of Doctor of Divinity (Honoris Causa) by the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, one of Nigeria’s foremost and premier Universities, at its 53rd Convocation.
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