296 St Marcellinus begins his reign as Catholic Pope

1294 Jews are expelled from Berne Switzerland

1607 Annales Ecclesiastici (Scientific History of Catholicism) published

1629 The settlers of Salem, Mass. appointed Samuel Skelton as their pastor, by ballot. Their church covenant, afterward composed by Skelton, established Salem as the first non-separating congregational Puritan Church in New England.

1741 Pope Benedict XIV encyclical forbidding traffic in alms

1780 Benjamin Randall organized a fellowship of churches known as Free Will Baptists in New Hampshire. It became one of the early branches of the National Association of Free Will Baptists, which was formed in 1935.

1909 In Rome, the Catholic Pontifical Biblical Commission issued a decree interpreting the first 11 chapters of Genesis as history, not myth.

1914 Mahatma Gandhi’s 1st arrest, campaigning for Indian rights in S Africa

1963 Cardinal Montini elected Pope Paul VI, 262nd head of RC Church

1973 In Korea, the Far Eastern Broadcasting Co. began transmitting the Gospel from HLAZ, its first radio station in this country. FBEC is active today through radio missions outreach, and focuses its work among the islands of Eastern Asia and the Pacific.

1974 Mrs. Martin Luther King, Sr., and a church deacon were slain by a crazed gunman in Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, where her son, the assassinated civil rights leader, once preached.

Religious Observances

RC : Commemoration of St Paul

RC : Memorial of the 1st Martyrs of the See of Rome (opt)

On This Day

Catholic Church - Saint Martial, Saint Theobald of Provins

In History

1968 - Pope Paul VI publishes Solemni Hac Liturgia

1988 - French archbishop Marcel Lefebvre excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church

June 30

On this day in 1818, Edward J. Hopkins, composer, was born at Westminster, London, England. In 1882, the Archbishop of Canterbury awarded him an honorary Doctor of Music.

30 Jun 64 Early Martyrs of Rome

30 Jun 1839 Johan Olaf Wallin of Sweden, Bishop, Hymn Writer

June 30

Bertrand, bishop (of LeMans) [GTZ: LeMans]
Erintrudis, virgin [GTZ: Salzburg]
Martial, bishop (of Limoges) [BLS; PCP (Paris)]
Paul, apostle (Commemoration) [common; 6082, in red]
Protomartyrs of the Roman Church [MR]

Feast Day:

St. Paul the Apostle, 68.
St. Martial, Bishop of Limoges, 3rd century.