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Reformation Day is a Protestant Christian religious holiday celebrated on 31 October in remembrance of the onset of the Reformation.. According to Philip Melanchthon, 31 October 1517 was the day Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-five Theses on the door of the All Saints' Church in Wittenberg, Electorate of Saxony, in the Holy Roman Empire.
During the First Barbary War, Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, Jr. proclaimed "the fewer men, the greater share of honor," before leading a raiding party to destroy the USS Philadelphia. [ 6 ] During World War II , Laurence Olivier delivered the speech during a radio programme to boost British morale and Winston Churchill found him so inspiring that ...
October is the tenth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 31 days. Its length is 31 days. The eighth month in the old calendar of Romulus c. 750 BC , October retained its name (from Latin and Greek ôctō meaning "eight") after January and February were inserted into the calendar that had originally been ...
The Church Militant and the Church Triumphant, fresco by Andrea da Firenze in Santa Maria Novella, c. 1365. Allhallowtide, [1] Hallowtide, [2] Allsaintstide, [3] or the Hallowmas season [4] [5] is the Western Christian season encompassing the triduum of All Saints' Eve (), All Saints' Day (All Hallows') and All Souls' Day, [6] [7] [8] as well as the International Day of Prayer for the ...
As October's Hunter's Moon ascends into the sky, it brings about a sense of mystery and intrigue, along with a dark element that foreshadows its lunation and the cold months ahead, hinting at the ...
“Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?” I fondly ask. But patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, “God doth not need Either man’s work or his own gifts; who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state Is Kingly: thousands at his bidding speed, And post o’er land and ocean without rest;
Trenham’s church has 1,000 active participants, and, although recent converts in his congregation have been split roughly evenly between men and women, he agrees that most Orthodox churches ...
Psalm 88 is the 88th psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "O L ORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee". In the slightly different numbering system used in the Greek Septuagint and Latin Vulgate translations of the Bible, this psalm is Psalm 87.