20th February, 536
On this day in Christian History, Pope Agapetus, sent as ambassador to the eastern emperor by Theodahad, king of the Ostrogoths, entered Constantinople. Sadly, he died there two months later.
20th February, 1620
On this day in Christian History, Rasmus Jensen died. He was the first Lutheran pastor in North America, at Port Churchill, Hudson Bay, Canada.
20th February, 1737
On this day in Christian History, popular author, Elizabeth Singer Rowe died at Frome in Somerset, England, from apoplexy. Her poems and fiction were Christian-themed, and she was largely considered a pivotal figure in the development of the English novel, to which she contributed the figure of the chaste heroine.
20th February, 1864
On this day in Christian History, Charles Cardwell McCabe, the Methodist chaplain whose singing made Julia Howe’s “Battle Hymn of the Republic” famous, sings it for President Abraham Lincoln in the White House. Lincoln cries, “Sing it again.” Afterward, the president remarks, “Take it all in all, the song and the singing, that was the best I ever heard.” McCabe will later be elected a Methodist bishop.
February 20, 1878
Election of Pope Leo XIII. He will be one of the longest-reigning popes, promoting the rosary, embracing the concept of Mary as mediatrix, issuing a famous encyclical on modernism, and much more.
February 20, 1919
Led by Lucy Peabody and Helen Montgomery, women unite for a day of prayer for missions. This develops into an annual worldwide prayer event.
February 20, 1942
Death of Barlaam, Archbishop of Perm, who had been restricted and imprisoned at various times by Soviet authorities for his religious activities. In August 1941 he had been condemned to be shot, but the sentence was commuted to ten years in prison camps.
20th February, 1960
On this day in Christian History, Death on a railroad train of William M. Strong, founder of the Gospel Mission of South America.
20th February, 1960
On this day in Christian History, Sir Leonard Woolley died in London. In his lifetime, he was an outstanding archaeologist who left behind him, a groundbreaking work on biblical peoples and places - the Hittites, ancient Sumeria, Sinai, and Ur of the Chaldees.
20th February, 1962
On this day in Christian History, Cuban authorities detained a Seventh-day Adventist pastor, Noble Alexander, who spent the next twenty-two years in prison.
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