14 August 1919
The Lutheran Deaconess Association
was organized at Ft. Wayne, Indiana.
15 August
1534
Ignatius of Loyola founded the Jesuit Order
of the Roman Catholic Church. The Jesuits played
a major role in the Counter-Reformation.
15 August
1456
Johannes Gutenberg completed the Mazarin Bible,
the first book printed his movable type printing
process, which allows for books and pamphlets to
be printed very quickly and inexpensively. This
contributed to the spread of the Reformation.
16 August 1527
Leonhard Kaiser, a Bavarian vicar
who supported Luther but recanted his support after
being arrested, was burned at the stake as a heretic.
17 August 1643
The Scottish General Assembly accepted
the Solemn League and Covenant. The Covenant, which
promised the maintenance of Presbyterianism in
Scotland and the reformation of the Church of England,
was the Puritans' reward for the Scots, who helped
the Puritans stop Charles I's attempt to impose
episcopacy upon the Puritans.
17 August 1836
The
Leipzig Evangelical Lutheran Church was founded.
18 August 1572
Huguenot leaders attended the wedding
of Henri de Navarre (the future Henri IV of France)
and Margaret de Valois, unaware that the bride's
mother, Catherine de Médicis, was planning
to massacre the Huguenots less than a week later.
18 August 1520
Martin Luther published his Open
Letter to the Christian Nobility, laying the groundwork
for the Reformation.
19 August 1531
In Norwich,
England, Thomas Bilney, an Lutheran Pastor, was
burned at the stake as a heretic.
20 August 1527
The Diet of Odensee sanctioned Lutheranism in Denmark.
21 August 1577
The Lutherans signed the Formula
of Concord at Gotha. The Formula confessed the
Scripture as the only rule of faith and dealt with
various doctrinal controversies.
22 August 1524
Martin Luther debated Andreas Karlstadt.
24 August
1572
The Bartholomew's Day Massacre began. For
the next two days, thousands of Huguenots were
killed throughtout France. The massacre was most
likely on the orders of Catherine de Médicis, the queen mother of France.
