November 18
1095
Pope Urban II opened the
Council of Clermont
to reform the church and to plan the first crusade.
1302
Pope Boniface VIII
(ca. 1235–1303)
published the bull
Unam
sanctam against Philip IV (the Fair) of France,
condemning Philip’s
political interference with the affairs of the church.
1575
Johannes Aurifaber, co-editor of the Jena edition of
Martin Luther’s works,
died (b. ca. 1519). [German
Wikipedia article]
1651
Paul
Gerhardt
(1607–1676), Lutheran
hymn writer, was ordained.
1784 American-born Anglican priest
Samuel
Seabury (1729–1796)
was ordained a bishop in Scotland.
1786
Carl Maria von Weber, famed German composer, was born
(d. 5 June 1826).
1800
John Nelson Darby, founder and leader of a branch of the
Plymouth Brethren, was born (d. 29 April 1882).
1849
Russell K. Carter, American Methodist clergyman and
hymnist, was born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 23 August 1928,
Catonsville, Maryland).
1866 English hymn writer
Katherine Hankey
(1834–1911) penned the
verse that is sung as the hymn
“I Love to Tell the
Story.”
1874
Arthur Tozer Russell, hymn translator, died at Rectory
of Southwick, near Brighton, England (b. 20 March 1806,
Northampton, Northamptonshire, England).
1874 Delegates from seventeen states met (through
20 November) in Cleveland, Ohio, to form the
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).
1893
Pope
Leo XIII
(1810–1903) published
the encyclical
Providentissimus Deus, which strongly encouraged
Roman Catholic educators to teach sound courses in biblical
introduction and interpretation.
1894
Concordia Teachers College (Seward, Nebraska) was
dedicated.
1899
August Reinke, pioneer of deaf ministry, died (b. 29
September 1841).
1925 The
Minneapolis Theses were adopted by the Norwegian
Lutheran Church of America and by the Ohio, Iowa and Buffalo
Synods. The theses formed the doctrinal basis of the
American Lutheran Church, organized in 1930, and of The
American Lutheran Conference.
1931
Ludwig E. Fuerbringer (1864–1947)
became president of Concordia Seminary (Saint Louis).
1965 A
decree on the Apostolate of the Laity was issued by the
Second Vatican Council.
1966 This was the last required meatless Friday
for American Roman Catholics. In February
Pope
Paul VI
(1897–1978) had made an
apostolic decree that prayer or charitable works might be
substituted as penance instead of fasting and abstinence.
1978 In Jonestown, Guyana, 913 members of Jim
Jones’s
Peoples Temple
cult committed suicide by poisoning themselves and their
families.
