March 11, 843
After years of iconoclasm (opposition to and destruction of icons), two-dimensional images are restored for worship in the Eastern Empire, an event known as “The Triumph of Orthodoxy.”
March 11, 859
Muslims behead Bishop Elogius in Cordoba, Spain.
March 11, 1185
Jews are brutally massacred by their fellow townsfolk in the old Anglican city of York.
March 11, 1559
In response to a sermon by John Knox, a Reformation mob burns churches in Perth, Scotland, and instructs the friars to hold mass no more.
March 11, 1829
Mendelssohn revives Bach’s St. Matthew Passion at the Singakademie in Berlin. A thousand people have to be turned away from the performance for lack of room.
March 11, 1836
On this day in Christian history, Emperor Nicholas I issued decrees that strengthen the Armenian church against Albanian rivals. Decades later, Armenian clergy destroyed the Albanian church records in an attempt to erase the church’s history.
March 11, 1877
On this day in Christian history, Gerard Manley Hopkins preached his “dominical”—a practice sermon.
March 11, 1888
Samuel Zwemer preaches his first sermon—to a congregation of African-Americans in a small New Brunswick, New Jersey, church. He will go on to become a notable missionary to the Arab world.
March 11, 1897
Death in Tunbridge Wells, England, of Henry Drummond, Scottish evangelist and religious writer, best remembered for his classic meditation on 1 Corinthians 13 “The Love Chapter” entitled The Greatest Thing in the World.
March 11. 1918
On this day in Christian History, Popular Gospel preacher, Reverend Jack Coe was born
March 11, 1923
Death in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, of hymnwriter Mary Ann Thomson. Her best-known hymn was “O Zion Haste, Thy Mission High Fulfilling.”
March 11, 1928
Sponsored by Methodists, Norman Dunning kicks off an evangelistic “crusade” in Perth, Australia, and will visit many leading cities in Australia with reasoned appeals to conversion and holy living.
March 11, 2001
Leonid Zwicki is installed as bishop of the newly-created Belarusian Evangelical Lutheran Church.
March 11, 2005
Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs requires 75,000 mosques to preach a sermon this day advising Muslims that Christian missionaries present a danger to national unity and integrity.
March 11, 2009
Thirty or more Hindus, angered at Christian preaching, attack pastor Erra Krupanamdam while he is returning from a prayer meeting in Andra Pradesh state, India, fracturing his spine and ribs.
March 11, 2012
A suicide bomber in a car attacks St. Finbar’s Catholic Church in Jos, Nigeria, leaving ten people dead.
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