Joy Horn with notable dates for the year ahead
EVENTS
Early in the year 664, the Synod of Whitby was held, summoned by the king of Northumbria. As a result, the ‘Celtic churches’, established through monks of Iona and Lindisfarne, accepted the practices of the ‘Roman churches’. This brought administrative advantages and theological dangers.
John Knox, the great Scottish Reformer, was born in 1514. A man of tremendous courage and a powerful preacher, he survived two years as a French galley slave to become a key figure in the formation of the Reformed Church of Scotland.
