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Aug 24 Start of Non-conformism

On Aug 24th in 1662 the deadline arrived for all Christian Ministers to assent to the Anglican Book of Common Prayer. 2000 Puritans...

June 20 Fr George Lemaitre and the Big Bang

The pioneering priest and physicist George Lemaitre died today. He is famous for proposing the "Big Bang theory" of the origin of the...

May 18 The Kidnapping of a Megachurch founder

Canadian Aimee Semple McPherson was a pioneer of evangelism. Faith-healer, founder of the Foursquare Gospel Church and builder of the...

Apr 27 Milton's Paradise Lost

Today the Puritan poet John Milton sold for ten pounds the copyright of his epic poem Paradise Lost. This lament, written after Cromwell...

Mar 4 Williams Penn's Holy Experiment - Philadelphia and Pennsylvania

Today in 1681, King Charles II handed over a large piece of his North American land holdings to William Penn in order to pay off debts to...

Feb 8 Anti slavery Quaker Benjamin Lay

Todays marks the death of remarkable man, Benjamin Lay. I am not aware of any other 4ft hunchback who has changed the world in quite the...

Jan 30 - Cromwell and the day of two Executions

Today in 1661 the puritan, Oliver Cromwell, and former Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, was ritually executed more than two...

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