#International Union of Gospel Missions (IUGM) is founded

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Today in Christian History

Today is Thursday, September 17th, the 261st day of 2020. There are 105 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

335: [or the 13th] Consecration of the Church of the Anastasis (Church of the Resurrection), commissioned by Emperor Constantine at the reputed site of Christ’s Resurrection. The church will not be completed for about fifty more years.

1252: Dedication of the Cathedral in Ely, England. King Henry III and Prince Edward are present.

1564: Don Gaspar Centellas of Valencia, a gentleman of birth and culture, is burned to death, having refused to recognize the Roman Church and pope as the Church of God.

1575: Death of Swiss reformer Heinrich Bullinger. He had succeeded Zwingli at Zurich and because of the hospitality he extended to English exiles, had gained influence with the English Puritans.

1683: Death of John Campanius, Lutheran missionary to Indians.

1717: The first synod of the Presbyterian Church in America meets in Philadelphia.

1792: Consecration of Thomas John Claggett at Trinity Church, New York City, by Bishops Samuel Seabury, William White, Samuel Provoost, and James Madison. He is the first Episcopal bishop consecrated in America, the others having obtained consecration in England or Scotland.

1804: Santa Ynez Mission is founded in California. Working here, Father Arroyo will prepare a grammar of the language of the Indians of the San Juan region.

1833: Upon her release from prison, a woman walks several miles to Kaiserswerth to ask pastor Theodore Fliedner for help and is given a small outbuilding as a temporary shelter, inaugurating what will become the Kaiserswerth institutions.

1913: International Union of Gospel Missions (IUGM) is founded, uniting in cooperation many groups which are operating rescue missions.

1942: Romanian authorities sentence Voicu Rusin to twenty-five years of forced labor for refusing to abandon his Pentecostal faith.

1959: Ground-breaking ceremony for the Adventist College of West Africa in Nigeria, that will train thousands of Africans and later become Babcock University.