Notable Events
451
Council of Chalcedon ends. It was the fourth and largest of the early general councils and insisted Christ has two natures, the human and the divine.
1512
After four years of work, Michelangelo opens the Sistine Chapel ceiling to public view on All Saints Day. His work covers a 5,800-square-feet surface.
1639
Joachim II, elector of Brandenburg, and his mother, Elizabeth of Brandenburg, receive the eucharist in both kinds, according to the Protestant form, from the hands of Matthias of Jagow, Bishop of Brandenburg, in St. Nicholas’ Church, Spandau. For many years thereafter, Spandau will observe 1 November as a day of thanksgiving.
1716
John Gill, who will become a leading Baptist pastor in England, makes his confession of faith and is baptized.
1770
Death at Islington, England, of Alexander Cruden, Scottish editor and compiler of Cruden’s Concordance, who originally prepared to study for the ministry but after suffering several mental breakdowns was confined to an asylum for brief stays three times over several years.
1815
Baptism of Edward Mote at eighteen years of age, who will write the hymn “My Hope is Built on Nothing Less.”
1845
Anne Ayres takes religious vows that will lead her to found the first religious order for women in the Episcopal Church in the United States.
1894
Liu Cho Wan is ordained as a Catholic priest. Skilled with languages and with the wisdom to settle disputes, he will be highly regarded wherever he labors.
1914
Beginning of the Apostolic Church of Faith in Jesus Christ when Romana Carbajal de Valenzuela, who had become Pentecostal in the Azusa Street Revival, convinces twelve Mexicans in her hometown of Chihuahua to adopt her teachings, including baptism in the name of Jesus only.
1919
Death of Sophie Lichtenfels, a German immigrant and scrubwoman (cleaning lady) in New York City. Told she was too old to become a foreign missionary, she had become a missionary to foreign immigrants in New York City and a well-known speaker. She was associated with A.B. Simpson’s Christian and Missionary Alliance to which she gave all that she could afford from her small wages. Many prominent rescue workers from New York and Philadelphia will turn out for her funeral.
1926
Russian evangelists Ivan Prokhanov and Peter Deyneka meet in New York. The two will work closely to win East Europeans for Christ.
1961
Death of Mordecai Ham, the evangelist under whose ministry Billy Graham was saved.
1990
China Cry premieres in Hollywood. It is the miracle-filled story of Nora Lam (Neng Yee), persecuted for her Christian faith in China but able to escape to Hong Kong and later to evangelize in the West and among her own people.
Source: Christian History Institute
