This day in #churchhistory pt.2
1560 - Death of German reformer Philip Melanchthon. He had composed the Augsburg Confession.
1854 -Nineteen-year-old English Baptist preacher, Charles Spurgeon, is called to pastor the New Park Chapel in London, one of the city’s largest churches.
This day in #churchhistory pt.1
1529 - After the Second Diet it Speyer bans Lutheranism, German rulers and cities begin protesting.
1539 - The Treaty of Frankfurt is signed between Protestants and the Holy Roman Empire.
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On this day in #ChurchHistory:
326 - Alexander of Alexandria dies
387 - Augustine of Hippo is baptized on the eve of Easter
1521 - The Trial of Martin Luther during the Diet of Worms begins.
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