March 3, 1033
Death of Cunegunda, Queen of Bavaria, who had voluntarily embraced humility after the death of her husband, Holy Roman Emperor Henry II. Having entered a convent, she insisted that no one treat her as the empress she had once been, taking the part of a servant and performing the lowest and dirtiest jobs that needed doing.
March 3, 1556
On this day in Christian History, Roman Catholics drove two hundred Protestants out of Locarno, Switzerland. The Protestants found refuge in Zurich with Henry Bullinger.
March 3, 1589
Death at Strasbourg of Lutheran educator Johannes Sturm, whose emphasis on Latin studies will dominate Protestant educational models long after the Reformation.
March 3, 1913
On this day in Christian History, Valentín Ampuero, the Bishop of Puno, Peru, led two hundred Indians to break into the home of Seventh Day Adventist missionary Frederick Stahl. Finding Stahl gone, they beat schoolteacher Manuel Camacho. The Adventists were also jailed on spurious charges, but acquitted by higher courts.
March 3, 1933
On this day in Christian History, the Navigators, an Evangelical organization, was founded in California, but sadly, it was not incorporated for another decade.
March 3, 1947
On this day in Christian History, Joseph Adeyemo Taiwo laid the foundation stone of the Agboye Baptist Church, Oyo. He had a hand in planting this and many other churches for the Nigerian Baptist Convention.
March 3, 1963
An assembly of priests and lay people from Kenya and Uganda is held in Kampala to reaffirm the particpants’ full support of and attachment to the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria.
March 3, 1990
On this day in Christian History, Pastor Titilope Rachael Adeboye was born. She is the wife of Pastor Adeleke Adeboye, son of Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye.
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