Posted 10:45pm CT Jan 10, 2008 in Minneapolis

Researched and written by Gloriscope staff

2007: Death of Hermann Josef Spital, a Catholic theologian, bishop of Trier (Germany), and President of the German section of the Catholic peace movement Pax Christi (1989-2001). – He founded a Catholic solidarity fund for the unemployed in 1983 and was a member of the papal council for social communication.

2002: Death of the U.S. pastor W. A. Criswell, twice-President of the Southern Baptist Convention (1968-69), the largest U.S. protestant denomination. – Criswell, a conservative evangelical pastor who led the big First Baptist Church in downtown Dallas, Texas, published over fifty books (including the so-called Criswell Study Bible). He also established a Christian college (Criswell College) in Dallas, a Christian school (First Baptist Academy) and a Christian radio station KCBI.

1995: The World Youth Day, an international Catholic gathering, was held in Manila in the Philippines. – The final mass by Pope John Paul II was attended by about four million people, the largest assembly in the history of the papacy.

1984: The United States of America and the Holy See (the Vatican) established full diplomatic relations.

1890: Death of Ignaz von Döllinger, German theologian and church historian, one of the most prominent Catholic theologians of his time. – He was known for his radical rejection of Protestantism and of Martin Luther’s theology.

1840: Birth of Louis-Nazaire Cardinal Bégin, the Catholic Archbishop of Quebec and Primate of the Catholic Church in Canada. – He was Professor of Religious Culture at the University of Laval. He died of paralysis in 1925.

1828: Birth of Hermann Koeckemann, German Catholic missionary to Hawaii, – He was the second vicar apostolic in the Hawaiian Islands (1882-1892). He died in 1892 and is buried in central Honolulu.

1815: Birth of Theophan the Recluse (died 1894), a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church. - He wrote many books on God-pleasing Christian living.

1645: Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud, was beheaded at the Tower of London during the English Civil War.

1638: Birth of the great Danish scientist Nicolas Steno (Niels Stensen), a pioneer of muscle anatomy, paleontology, and sedimentary geology. – He was born in Copenhagen and brought up in the Danish Lutheran Church. He worked in Italy (Florence) and Germany (Hanover and Hamburg), and he formulated some fundamental principles of stratigraphy in sedimentary geology and of crystal structure (Steno’s Law) in mineralogy. He was a Christian scientist of European stature. He converted to Roman Catholicism, became a Catholic priest and bishop, and was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1987. He died in 1686.

1607: Birth of the French-born Jesuit St. Isaac Jogues, a missionary to Native Americans in North America. - He was a missionary to the Hurons, Mohawks, and Algonquins. He died in 1646, tortured, beaten to death and decapitated by the Mohawks near present-day Albany in upper New York State. He is considered a martyr of the Christian faith and was canonized as a saint by Pope Pius XI in 1930.

1514: Publication of the Complutensian Bible in Spain, the first printed multilingual edition of the entire Bible. – This famous Bible, called la Biblia Complutense in Spanish, was originally printed in six volumes and 600 copies, of which 123 are known to still exist. The Old Testament was printed in three parallel columns in Hebrew, Jerome’s version of Latin Vulgate translation, and Greek Septuagint, with the Aramaic text added on the bottom of the Pentateuch books. The New Testament was printed in parallel Greek and Latin Vulgate.

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