January 14
1129 Formal approval of the Order
of the Knights Templar was granted at the Council of Troyes.
1501 Martin Luther, 17, entered the
University of Erfurt.
1514 Pope Leo X
issued a papal bull against slavery.
1524 The
Second Diet of Nürnberg
opened.
1529 Spanish reformer Juan de
Valdés
(ca. 1500–1541)
published his Dialogue on Christian Doctrine. Its
emphasis on faith and religious feeling, as well as disregard of
ecclesiastical authority, paved the way in Spain for Protestant ideas.
1545 Martin Luther’s opinion on Martin Bucer’s
(1491–1551)
reformation was printed.
1699
Jacob Adlung, erudite organist of the Predigerkirche in
Erfurt, was born (d. 5 July 1762). [German
Wikipedia article]
1811
Rowland H. Prichard, composer, was born (d. 25 January 1887).
1824 The
South Carolina Synod was organized by six pastors and five
laymen representing thirteen congregations.
1845 The first
Pittsburgh Synod was formed.
1864
Lauritz A. Vigness, educator and professor at Augustana Synod
colleges, was born in Fillmore County, Minnesota (d. 21 September 1947).
1875
Albert Schweitzer, theologian and musician, was born in
Alsace (d. 4 September 1965).
1876
Edmund H. Sears, hymnist, died (b. 6 April 1810).
1892
Martin Niemöller,
German Lutheran pastor and political activist, was born (d. 6 March
1984, Wiesbaden).
1893 Pope Leo
XIII (1810–1903)
appointed Archbishop Francesco Satolli as the Vatican's first Apostolic
Delegate to the U.S.
1917 The Lutheran Publicity
Organization of Saint Louis was organized.
1959 Eivind
Josef Berggrav, bishop of Oslo, died (b. 1884).
1968 Theodore Eckhardt died (b.
1882). He was the office manager of the Chicago-based Army and Navy
Board (1918-1919) and became financial secretary of the LCMS in 1920.
He worked for the Concordia Historical Institute in the same role from
1927 to 1942 and as treasurer from 1942 to 1956.
2001 Elisabeth Vadrot-Galdies was
ordained as "diacre-evangeliste" (evangelist-deaconess) in the
ev.-luth. Holy-Cross church in Strasbourg, by church president Jean
Thiebaut Haessig. Mme. Vadrot-Galdies, of Roman Catholic background,
studied at the theological faculty of the university of human sciences
in Strasbourg. During that time she joined the Holy-Cross parish of the
EEL-SFB (Evangelical Lutheran Church Synod of France and Belgium). In
Macon, France, she commenced visiting patients in five public
hospitals, old-age homes and clinics for nervous diseases. There was no
permanent minister in the city doing such work. Hence she was granted
the right by the authorities to visit the sick on behalf of the EEL-SFB.
