January 22
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Vincent of Saragossa, martyr, is commemorated.
1629
Johann Tarnow, exegete, died (b. 1586, Grevesmühlen,
Mecklenburg).
1711
Johann Philipp Fabricius, Lutheran missionary among the
Tamil people of India, was born at Kleeberg, Germany (d.
1791).
1815
Philipp Fleischmann, who helped found and conduct the
Missouri Synod teachers seminary at Milwaukee in 1855, was
born in Regensburg, Bavaria (d. 11 September 1878).
1821
Georg Philipp Speckhard, first director of the Lutheran
School for the Deaf (Detroit), was born in Wersau, Hesse (d.
20 November 1879).
1843
Francis Landry Patton, Presbyterian cleric and educator,
was born in Warwick, Bermuda (d. 25 November 1932).
1843
Friedrich Wilhelm Blass, German philologist and
grammarian, was born (d. 5 March 1907). [German
Wikipedia article]
1855
Carrie Ellis Breck, American Presbyterian poet, was born
in Vermont (d. 27 March 1934, Portland, Oregon).
1858
Gerhard Friedrich Bente, professor at Concordia Seminary
(Saint Louis) and a compiler of the Concordia Triglotta,
was born in Wimmer, Hannover (d. 15 December 1930).
1859
Andrew George Voigt, theologian and educator in the
Lutheran United Synod of the South, was born in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2 January 1933).
1872
Friedrich Reinhold Eduard Preuss
(1834–1904), a professor at
Concordia Seminary (Saint Louis) from 1869 to 1871, was
rebaptized in the Roman Catholic Church.
1876
John Bacchus Dykes, composer of sacred music and an
English clergyman, died (b. 10 March 1823,
Kingston-upon-Hull, England).
1882
Frederick Henry Stephen Hassold, LCMS missionary to New
Zealand, was born in Huntington, Indiana (d. 6 September
1970).
1882 The Fifth Street Presbyterian Church of Troy,
New York, became the first church in America to be lit by
electric lights.
1899
Pope
Leo XIII
(1810–1903) warned James Cardinal
Gibbons, senior hierarch of the Catholic church in America,
against the “phantom heresy”
of Americanism: the attempt to adapt the traditional
doctrines and practices of the church to a more independent
modern world.
1913
Carl F. H. Henry, American evangelical theologian and
publisher, was born (d. 7 December 2003).
1913
John Julian, hymnist, died (b. 27 January 1839).
1915
Anna B. Warner (b. 31 August 1827), American hymn
writer, died.
1922
Pope
Benedict XV died (b. 21 November 1854).
1966
William Mahler, the first Missouri Synod missionary to
Brazil, died (b. 16 November 1870, Polkwitz, Germany).
1967 The Lutheran hospital at Abatan, Mountain
Province, Philippines, was dedicated.
1973 The
Roe v.
Wade decision, legalizing abortion in United States, was
handed down by U.S. Supreme Court.
1976 Jean Garton, Lutherans for Life, spoke at the
National Prayer Breakfast for Life in Washington, D.C.
