VirginiaHuguenot
Puritanboard Librarian
On February 28,
* 1066 -- Westminster Abbey first opened its doors;
* 1528 -- Patrick Hamilton became the first Protestant to be martyred in Scotland;
* 1551 -- Martin Bucer, German Reformer, died;
* 1638 -- The Scottish National Covenant was signed at the Greyfriars Church in Edinburgh;
* 1638 -- The castle of Hara, on the Japanese island of Amakusa, held by 30,000 Christian troops under Masada Shiro, was captured. The defenders set fire to the castle, and all perished in the flames or by the sword. From then until 1873 (235 years later), Christianity was banned in Japan under penalty of death;
* 1807 -- Robert Morrison sailed from Britain to become the first Protestant missionary to China. By the time he died 27 years later, he had baptized only 10 Chinese, but his pioneering work (including a six-volume dictionary and a translation of the Bible) helped missionaries who came after him;
* 1944 -- Nazi soldiers arrest Dutch Christian Corrie ten Boom and her family for harboring Jews. The Jews hiding in her house escaped. Corrie was the only member of her family who survived internment in concentration camps.
[Edited on 2-28-2005 by VirginiaHuguenot]
* 1066 -- Westminster Abbey first opened its doors;
* 1528 -- Patrick Hamilton became the first Protestant to be martyred in Scotland;
* 1551 -- Martin Bucer, German Reformer, died;
* 1638 -- The Scottish National Covenant was signed at the Greyfriars Church in Edinburgh;
* 1638 -- The castle of Hara, on the Japanese island of Amakusa, held by 30,000 Christian troops under Masada Shiro, was captured. The defenders set fire to the castle, and all perished in the flames or by the sword. From then until 1873 (235 years later), Christianity was banned in Japan under penalty of death;
* 1807 -- Robert Morrison sailed from Britain to become the first Protestant missionary to China. By the time he died 27 years later, he had baptized only 10 Chinese, but his pioneering work (including a six-volume dictionary and a translation of the Bible) helped missionaries who came after him;
* 1944 -- Nazi soldiers arrest Dutch Christian Corrie ten Boom and her family for harboring Jews. The Jews hiding in her house escaped. Corrie was the only member of her family who survived internment in concentration camps.
[Edited on 2-28-2005 by VirginiaHuguenot]