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Williams, William --conversion of, (Jan.11); pens "Guide Me, 0 Thou Great Jehovah", (Jan.11); assists in founding the London Sunday School Union, (July 13); Death of, (Jan.11)

Willibrord --his missionary enterprises threatened by the unfriendly Radbod, (Nov.6); protected by Charles Martel, (Nov.6); Death of, (Nov.6)

Wilson, Agnes --her flight to the mountains with her brother and sister and the attempts to hunt them down as animals, (Apr.13); her arrest, imprisonment and ransom, (Apr.13)

Wilson, C. T. –(Jan.30)

Wilson, John --organizes the First Church in Boston, (Aug.7); his opposition to the Antinomianism of Anne Hutchinson, (Aug.7); serves as chaplain of the Pequod expedition, (Aug.7); his labor with John Eliot, (Aug.7)

Wilson, Margaret --her flight with her brother and sister to the mountains where they are hunted, (Apr.13); her arrest, imprisonment and Death, (Apr.13)

Wilson, Woodrow –(July 4)
Winebrenner, John --ordination of, and his separation from worldliness, (Sept.24)
Winebrennarians –(Sept.24)
Winfrid --(See: Boniface)
Winryme, John –(July 18)
Winslow, Commander______________--his cruelty towards the Acadians, (July 3)
Winter, Thomas – (Nov.5)

Winthrop, John --writes his wife detained in England, (Apr.12); assists in writing his brethren left behind in England, (July 7); of the Massachusetts immigrants, (July 7); assists in founding the First Church of Boston, (July 30); first writes to Salem against Roger Williams, (Apr.12); cf. (Apr.7)

Winthrop, Robert C. --Manifest Destiny, (Jan.3)

Wise, John --fined, imprisoned, and deprived of his church when he opposes the arbitrary taxation of Governor Edmund Andros, (Apr.8); his opposition to the Proposals of 1705, (Apr.8); Death of, (Apr.8)

Wishart, George --the conversion of John Knox, (Mar.1); denounced by Thomas Cranmer, and his subsequent arrest by Cardinal David Beaten, (Mar.1); Death of, (Mar.1); cf. (July 15)

Witch Trials --break out in England and the continent of Europe at the same time as in New England, (Sept.22); Sir William Phips, (Oct.12); Rev. Samuel Parris, (Mar.21); the execution of Rev. George Burroughs, (Aug.19); the condemnation of six Anabaptist women, (Sept.9); the case of Giles Cory, (Sept.9); the execution of Mrs. Glover, (Nov.16); eight are hanged, (Sept.22); the imprisonment of Martha Corey for her denying the reality of witchcraft, (Mar.21); the confession of guilt by Judge Samuel Sewell for his part in, (June 10); the General Court of Massachusetts sets aside a day for prayer and fasting to seek forgiveness for, (Jan.14); Cotton Mather of, (Feb.12)

Witherspoon, John --Birth of, (Feb.5); the conversion of John Hancock, (Feb.5); at the signing of the Declaration Of Independence, (Nov.15); Death of, (Nov.15)

Witlinguis, Joannes --(See: Johann Brenz)

Wolfgang, Count Palatine --raises an army to assist the Huguenots, (Sept.18); his victory over French Catholic forces, (June 11); his assistance to Admiral Gaspard Coligny, and his subsequent Death, (June 11); Huguenot leaders of, (June 11)

Wolleb --his Abridgement to Christian Theology, (Oct.28)

Wolsey, Cardinal Thomas --burns the writings of Martin Luther, (May 12); charges his emissaries to track down William Tyndale, (May 12); his character, (Nov.29); his disapproval of the marriage of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn, and his subsequent arrest for high treason, (Nov.29); Death of, (Nov.29); cf. (July 28)

"Wonderful Words Of Life" – (Dec.29)
Wood, Edward Frederick Lindley --(Earl of Halifax) --his betrayal of the freedoms of his countrymen, (Mar.3)
Wood, Joseph – (Sept.27)

Woodbridge, Charles --favors the forming of an Independent Presbyterian Board on account of Liberalism, (Apr.6); the formation of the Presbyterian Church of America (The Orthodox Presbyterian Church), (Apr.6); his trial by a Church court and his subsequent defrocking, (Apr.6)

Woods, Leonard –(Sept.28)
Woodward, William –(Dec.8)

Woolman, John --Birth of, (Oct.19); his opposition to slavery, intemperance, and war, (Oct.19); his refusal to use either Sugar or clothing dye on account of it being produced by slave labor, (Oct.19)

World Council of Churches --founded, (Aug.22); its Liberalism, (Aug.22)
Wright, John – (Nov.5)
Wurm, Bishop Theophil --his arrest by the Nazis, (Oct.6)
Wurtemberg Agenda – (Oct.5)
Wyandottes --their attack upon the mission of David Zeisberger, (Nov.17)

Wycliffe, John --the influence of Thomas Bradwardine upon, (Aug.26); the condemnation of his works, (May 4); Archbishop William Courtenay summons the assembly to expunge "false doctrine" from the land, and the occurrence of an earthquake, (May 21); Gregory XI issues a bull against, and his subsequent protection by Lancaster, (May 22); the Synod of Oxford bars him from lecturing in the University, (Nov.18); the Council of Oxford called, (Aug.22); translates the Bible into English, (Dec.31); his views on government and the Church, (Dec.31); stricken with apoplexy, and his subsequent death, (Dec.31); the Council of Constance convenes, (Nov.1); his bones exhumed, and burned, (May 4); the Lollard influence upon John Huss, (July 6)

Wycliffites --(See: Lollards)

Wyszynski, Cardinal --his compromise with Poland's Communist government and the deceit on the part of the government, (Sept.29); his recantation and subsequent arrest, (Sept.29); his liberty granted, (Sept.29)


 

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