Posted 10:50am CT Jan 11, 2008 in Minneapolis

Researched and written by Gloriscope staff

1935: Death of Alfred Jeremias, a prominent German Lutheran historian who wrote a book on the Old Testament seen in the context of old Mesopotamian religions. – He was a professor of Assyrian history at the University in Leipzig and a Lutheran priest in the same city. He made the first complete German translation of the Old Babylonian heroic epic Gilgamesh.

1918: Birth of the courageous Chinese priest Paul Guo Wenzhi, a Roman Catholic bishop in northern China. – He was persecuted by the Chinese Communist regime and sentenced to ten years detention in a prison camp. In 1989, he organized underground Catholic churches and served time in a labor camp again (1990-92). He died in June 2006.

1791: Death of Williams Pantycelyn, the most important writer of Christian hymns in Wales and a leader of the 18th century Welsh Methodist Revival. – Pantycelyn, who wrote mostly in the Welsh language, is one of the greatest Welsh writers of poetry and prose. During the Welsh Methodist Revival, which was Calvinist-based, many Christians were nicknamed “Jumpers,” because they were jumping for joy. Pantycelyn’s writings defended their faith-inspired jumping.

1713: Death of the French Anglican priest and apologetic writer Pierre Jurieu, an influential Protestant leader in France

1696: Death of the French Jesuit priest, missionary and explorer in Canada.

1641: Death of the prominent Dutch Protestant theologian Franciscus Gomarus. – He opposed Jakob Arminius. When the Dutch Reformed Church held its Synod of Dordt (Synod of Dord) in 1618-19, Gomarus advocated the strict Calvinistic interpretation of predestination.

1571: Austrian nobility was granted freedom of religion.

1495: Death of the Catholic cardinal Pedro González de Mendoza. – He was Archbishop of Toledo, a protector of Christopher Columbus, and he occupied Granada after the Spanish Christian troops had defeated the Muslim rulers there and ended the last trace of Muslim rule in Spain.

1494: Death of the prominent Italian Renaissance painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. – He belonged to the Florentine School of art and it was from him that Michelangelo learned how to paint frescoes. Ghirlandaio painted, among other works, important pictures of Virgin Mary and two frescoes in the Sixtine Chapel in the Vatican, of which the fresco “The Call of Apostles Peter and Andrew” still exists.

1055: Death of the Byzantine emperor Constantine IX Monomachos. – It was during his reign, in 1054, that the Great Schism occurred in the Church. The Church split into a Greek and a Roman part, the former in the East and the latter in the West, into what would later become the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church.

802: Death of St. Paulinus II, Patriarch of Aquileia (northeastern Italy) – He was a prominent Christian church leader and a theologian of European stature. He is considered the Christianizing apostle to the neighboring Slovenes, a Slav people who lived in the area of the present-day Republic of Slovenia.

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