September

22, 1692 --Massachusetts. Eight people are hanged having been judged guilty of witchcraft. Mr. Samuel Wardwell has confessed and was safe, but from shame and repentance he has retracted his confession, and speaking the truth boldly, he is hanged, not for witchcraft but for denying witchcraft.
     Martha Cory was visited in prison by Matthew Parris, and his two deacons along with another member of his church, just shortly before her death. At this time she imperiously destroyers. She was immediately pronounced "excommunicated."
     Mary Easty exposed the falsehood of those who had selected for execution so many members of her family, and demonstrated the noblest fortitude, dignity and resignation with the sweetest of tempers.
     "There hang eight firebrands of Hell" cried Mr. Noyes, minister of Salem as he pointed to the bodies swinging on the gallows.
     It is significant that an outbreak of witchcraft occurred at the same time in England and on the continent of Europe as it did in New England.

"Nothing proves more invincibly the immortality of the soul, the truth of religion and eternity of another life than to see in this life the righteous seldom receive the reward of their virtue, and in temporal things are often less happy than the workers of iniquity."
- Calmet-

22, 1869 --Ohio. The Calvinistic Methodist Church is organized as the Welch Presbyterian Church in America in its General Assembly at Columbus.

23, 1122 --Germany. Pope Calixtus II and Henry V in Germany settle the investiture question at the Concordat of Worms. The Emperor renounces his right of the Spiritual Investiture of bishops granting them their ring and crozier, but in turn, the Pope grants him the right of Lay Investiture with his sceptre as a sign of temporal authority. The Emperor agrees to give temporal aid to the church whenever it is demanded.

23, 1658 --Massachusetts. The Commissioners of the colonies have been meeting in Boston. Today they close their acts by stating --"Whereas there is an accursed and pernicious sect of heretics, lately risen up in the world, who are commonly called "Quakers", who take upon them to be immediately sent of God, and infallibly assisted, who do speak and write blasphemous things, despising government, and the order of God in Church and Commonwealth; speaking evil of dignities, reproaching and reviling magistrates; and the ministers of the Gospel, seeking to turn the people from the faith and to gain proselytes to their pernicious ways; and whereas the several jurisdictions have made divers laws to prohibit their coming amongst them, (but they refusing to obey them, and still making disturbance) it is therefore propounded, and seriously commended to the several General courts, ... to make a law that all Quakers, formerly convicted and punished as such, shall (if they return again) be imprisoned, and forthwith banished or expelled out of the said jurisdiction, under pain of death."