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This Day in HIS-story: September 4

1633 HT: Dan Graves On this day, 4 September 1633, the ship Griffin sailed into Boston harbor. Aboard, three prominent Puritan ministers had stowed away to escape the watchful eyes of government agents seeking to arrest them. With persecution against non-conformists (those who did not accept the Church of England) raging in Britain, they had fled to escape…

This Day in HIS-story: September 2

1942 HT: Dan Graves Martyrs’ Day is observed on different days in different countries and in some countries not at all. Often the “martyrs” commemorated are political or military heroes, the sort of deaths we in America remember on Memorial Day. Several martyrs remembered in Papua New Guinea died for Christ. Beside a road against…