6th May, 259
On this day in Christian History, after great torture aimed at getting them to renounce their faith during the Valerian persecution, James and Marian were beheaded in a North Africa gorge.
6th May, 1237
On this day in Christian History, the bones of St. Sava of Serbia we’re removed from the Cathedral of the Holy Forty Martyrs in Trnovo to the monastery Mileseva in southern Serbia, where they remained for three hundred and sixty years until the Ottoman Turks dug them up and burnt them.
6th May, 1432
On this day in Christian History, the altarpiece for St. John’s Church in Ghent, Belgium was dedicated. The altarpiece was the work of aging Flemish artist, Jan van Eyck.
6th May, 1527
On this day in Christian History, fourty-thousand mercenaries from the army of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, hired by Cardinal Pompeo Colonna, sacked the city of Rome, killing, torturing, looting, and raping. They burnt two thirds of the city and Pope Clement VII was forced to flee to the castle of St. Angelo while disguised as a gardener.
6th May, 1531
On this day in Christian History, twenty-year-old Pierre Viret, began a reformation work in his home town of Orbe, Switzerland, by preaching his first sermon. He later extended his preaching to France, where he was a major player in the creation of the Huguenot movement.
6th May, 1536
On this day in Christian History, King Henry VIII of England orders that an English-language Bible be placed in every church in the nation.
6th May, 1619
On this day in Christian History, The Canons of Dort, a Calvinist response to the Arminian Remonstrance, was promulgated in Dort’s Great Church before a large congregation.
May 6, 1638
On this day in Christian History, a Dutch theologian, Cornelius Jansen, died. In his lifetime, he inspired the Catholic reform movement known as Jansenism. Opposed to the teachings of the Jesuits and of Thomas Aquinas, he had adopted Augustine’s doctrine of irresistible grace, but his views on grace and predestination were condemned by the church.
6th May, 1746
On this day in Christian History, William Tennent died in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Born in Ireland, he had migrated to America where he operated a seminary in a log cabin, infusing his pupils with such evangelistic zeal that they became the leaders of the Great Awakening. They grew to establish many influential frontier schools in their turn.
6th May, 1840
On this day in Christian History, Dmitri Gallitzin, a Catholic missionary known as the “Apostle of the Alleghanies”, died in Loretto, Pennsylvania.
6th May, 1861
On this day in Christian History, in a Commemoration Day sermon, Dr. William Selwyn, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, and a former Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge, reminded his hearers that the college was celebrating “its seventh jubilee,” and pleaded earnestly for the erection of a larger chapel. His plea was successful.
6th May, 1928
On this day in Christian History, a bandit army attacked Qinzhou City and one of the soldiers split open the skull of thirty-three-year-old Wu Baoying, a Christian doctor who, after years of service with the China Inland Mission, founded the local hospital. His last words, when discovered the next morning in a pool of blood, are “The Lord is with us.”
6th May, 1962
On this day in Christian History, Pope John XXIII canonized Martin de Porres (1579-1639), a mixed-race associate of the Dominican Order, remembered for his humility and for his charity in nursing the sick.
6th May, 2018
On this day in Christian History, Pastor Dr. Daniel Olawande got married to his heartthrob, Pastor Oluwanifemi. They met on a crusade ground on the 6th of October, 2017 and got married on 5th May, 2018.
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