February 25, 1570: Pope Pius V excommunicates England's Protestant Queen Elizabeth I, declaring her to be a usurper to the throne. It was the last time a pope "deposed" a reigning monarch.
February 25, 1536: Anabaptist Jakob Hutter is tortured, whipped, and immersed in freezing water (to mock baptismal practices), then doused with brandy and burned. King Ferdinand had ordered the persecution of all Anabaptists because of a few violent, millennialist revolutionaries in Munster, Germany—even though most Anabaptists were pacifists and renounced the Munsterite rebellion.
- Christianity Today
If we were faced with real persecution, suffering, and sacrifice, many of us would really decide how much of a Christian we really are. I share this thought with my faithful blog readers not judgmentally toward you, just soberly and reflectively, for us to ponder today.
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