Today is Monday, August 24, 2009.
On this day in history:
0410 - The Visigoths sacked Rome, disillusioning Christians who were
trusting in God's protection of this ecclesiastical center of
early Christianity. St. Augustine (354�430) later tacked this
religious problem in his monumental work, "City of God"
(ca.413�27).
1456 - In Mainz, Germany, volume two of the famed Gutenberg Bible was
bound, completing a two-year publishing project, and making it
the first full-length book to be printed using movable type.
1572 - The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre took place all across France,
where thousands of French Protestants (Huguenots) were
slaughtered. depleted the intellectual, educational and
financial reserves of the French nation.
1854 - The Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Iowa was organized by German
Lutherans. In 1930 this synod merged with the synods of Ohio
and Buffalo to form the American Lutheran Church.
1906 - Five Baptist congregations met at Jellico Creek, Whitley County,
Kentucky, and formed the Church of God of the Mountain
Assembly. The CGMA both pentecostal and holiness in doctrine
reports a world membership today of 7,000.
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