9th – 10th July, 1930: The Ilesha meeting in which the raising of a dead 10 years old child by Apostle Joseph Ayodele Babalola sparked off the revival at Oke-Oye, Ilesha, (later Osun State) in what was then the Southern Protectorate of Nigeria. The 1930 revival is renowned as the event that sparked the beginning of pentecostalism and the main apostolic move of God in Nigeria. Apostle Joseph Ayodele Babalola was a Healing Evangelist, Apostle and Prophet.
9th July, 2008: The birth of Feb Jr. – the first living grandson of Archbishop Benson Idahosa of blessed memory. This was exactly one year after the burial of the first son of Bishop and Reverend Laurie Feb Idahosa and an arduous journey of infertility treatments with 5 failed IVF attempts.
9 July, 386AD: Nestorius, the first patriarch of Constantinople, is born in what is now Maras, Turkey. Nestorius is famous for his opposition to Mary being described as “theotokos” or God-bearer, preferring the term “Christotokos” or Christ-bearer.
9 July, 1228: Stephen Langton, greatest of the medieval archbishops of Canterbury, passed on to glory. He had formulated the original division of the Bible into chapters in the late 1100s and his name appears on the Magna Carta as counselor to the King.
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