Posted Dec. 31, 2007 MINNEAPOLIS 12:05am CT | LONDON 06:05am | SYDNEY 05:05pm

Researched and written by Gloriscope staff

1930: Pope Pius XI promulgated his encyclical Casti Connubii on the sanctity of marriage and on the prohibition of abortion and artificial birth control.

1898: Birth of the prominent German Evangelical theologian Erich Sauer (died 1959), who influenced the theology of the German and worldwide Evangelicalism.

1687: Departure of the first Huguenots (French Protestants) from France to the Cape of Good Hope area of South Africa

1384: Death of John Wycliffe, an English theologian at the Oxford University who was a Bible translator and a forerunner of the Reformation. – He was the driving force behind the effort to make the first complete English translation of the Bible. He translated large portions of the New Testament; the end result of the collective translation was the so-called Wycliffe Bible (published in 1382-1384). He was called the “Morning Star of the Reformation,” because he was a forerunner of the Protestant Reformation. He founded the Lollards, a dissident lay movement within the Catholic Church in England; Lollards were poor Christian people who advocated the supreme authority of the Scriptures in the Church and a reform of the Catholic Church.

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