The monk Columba sailed from Ireland, with 12 companions, and after a perilous journey landed on the island of Iona in 563. He founded a monastery there to train young men for the evangelisation of the North Picts.
The Spanish Gospel Mission was founded in 1913. Augustine's City of God was begun in 413 and Foxe’s Actes and Monuments, popularly known as Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, was first published in 1563. John A. Robinson’s liberal Honest to God was published by SCM Press in 1963.
Births: August Hermann Francke (1663) Daniel Rowland (1713) Kierkegaard, Robert Murray M’Cheyne (1813) G Campbell Morgan (1863) Carl Henry, W. Stanford Reid (1913)
Deaths: William Grimshaw (1763) William Huntington, John Venn (1813) Frederic Monod, a notable French pastor in Paris, (1863) Borden of Yale, James Orr, Scottish theologian, Granville Waldegrave, 3rd Lord Radstock (1913)
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