The Church of Christ, Scientist was founded in 1879 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, by Mary Baker Eddy.

The church was founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1879 following a personal healing in 1866, which she claimed resulted from reading the Bible.

In February 1866, Mary Baker Eddy ( known at the time as Mary Glover ) was healed of an injury " that neither medicine nor surgery could reach ..." ( Ret 24: 12 ).

The readers of her book gathered into an organization and gradually developed into a church, with Mary Baker Eddy as its pastor.

Both Primary and Normal classes are based on the Bible and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy.

The Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity is housed in an 11-story structure originally built for The Christian Science Publishing Society constructed between 1932 and 1934, and the present plaza was constructed in the late 1960s and early 1970s to include a 28 story administration building, a colonnade, and a reflecting pool with fountain, designed by Araldo Cossutta of I. M. Pei and Partners ( now Pei Cobb Freed ).

The Christian Science Board of Directors is a five-person executive entity created by Mary Baker Eddy to conduct the business of the Christian Science Church under the terms defined in the by-laws of the Church Manual.

From the moment Mark Twain published his 1907 attack on Christian Science, the Church, and Mary Baker Eddy, herself, Christian Science has been subject to significant criticism and public controversy.

However, according to his biographer, Albert Paine, Twain seemed to take issue more with what he saw as Mary Baker Eddy's cult of personality than with the actual ideas of Christian Science saying:

These critics state that Mary Baker Eddy's interpretation of Christian scripture diverges too greatly from basic tenets of Christianity.

* The Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity

* " Mary Baker Eddy: Christian Healer ( Twentieth-Century Biographers Series ) Yvonne Cache Von Fettweis * ( 2010 )

* " Rolling Away the Stone: Mary Baker Eddy's Challenge to Materialism ( Religion in North America ) Stephen Gottschalk ( 2011 )

* Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Discovery ; Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Trial ; and Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Authority comprise the three-volume biography of Eddy favored by Christian Scientists.

* The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science by Willa Cather and Georgine Milmine ( 1909 ) began as a famous Muckraking magazine series 1907 – 08.

* God's Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church by Caroline Fraser ( 2000 ), a biography of Mary Baker Eddy and a history of the Christian Science church from its founding to the present day, with a detailed section on the " child cases " of the 1980s.

He married Alison Mary McNair on 20 July 1964.

He also married Mary Brownson, a woman five years his senior, from the nearby town of Roxbury, in July 1762.

In February 1577, it was rumoured that Oxford's sister Mary would marry Lord Gerald Fitzgerald ( 1559 – 1580 ), but by 2 July, she was linked with Peregrine Bertie, later Lord Willoughby d ' Eresby.

They had two children: Gillian Mary Baverstock ( 15 July 1931 – 24 June 2007 ) and Imogen Mary Smallwood ( born 27 October 1935 ).

Captured by Bothwell's rivals, Mary was imprisoned in Loch Leven Castle, and in July 1567, was forced to abdicate in favour of her infant son James VI.

In January 1387, Elizabeth was strangled, while Mary was released in July of the same year, by the effort of future Frankopan family and Jadwiga's adopted maternal uncle King Tvrtko of Bosnia.

Samuel Galton, Jr., unusual as a Quaker who was also a gun-manufacturer, appears in the letters of other Lunar members as attending meetings from July 1781, and his daughter Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck was to provide one of the few first-hand accounts of the Lunar Society's activities.

** Earliest day on which Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary can fall, while July 3 is the latest ; celebrated 20 days after Pentecost.

When King Sigismund took Dobor in Bosnia in July 1394, Queen Mary ordered the captured John Horvat to be tortured to death.

Mary I ( 18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558 ) was the Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 until her death.

By 12 July, Mary and her supporters had assembled a military force at Framlingham Castle, Suffolk.

Mary continued to exhibit signs of pregnancy until July 1555, when her abdomen receded.

Mary Magdalene is considered by the Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, and Lutheran churches to be a saint, with a feast day of July 22.

On 23 July 2006 Pope Benedict XVI spoke about Mary Magdalene in his address before the Angelus, referring to her as " a disciple of the Lord who plays a lead role in the Gospels.

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America honors Mary Magdalene on July 22 as a Lesser Festival.

In 1955, at age 18, she married Richard Carleton Meeker whom Mary described as " the boy next door ," and within six weeks she was pregnant with her only child, Richard, Jr. ( born July 3, 1956 ).

* 1982 – The Mary Rose, a Tudor carrack which sank on July 19, 1545, is salvaged from the sea bed of the Solent, off Portsmouth.

Paranthropus boisei was discovered by Mary Leakey on July 17, 1959, at the FLK Bed I site of Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania ( specimen OH 5 ).

In the list of more important bulls issued by him the famous bull " In Coena Domini " ( 1568 ) takes a leading place ; but amongst others throwing light on Pope Pius V's character and policy there may be mentioned his prohibition of quaestuary ( February 1567 and January 1570 ); the condemnation of Michael Baius, the heretical Professor of Leuven ( 1567 ); the reform of the breviary ( July 1568 ); the denunciation of the " dirum nefas " ( August 1568 ); the banishment of the Jews from the ecclesiastical dominions except Rome and Ancona ( 1569 ); the injunction of the use of the reformed missal ( July 1570 ); the confirmation of the privileges of the Society of Crusaders for the protection of the Inquisition ( October 1570 ); the dogmatic certainty of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary ( November 1570 ); the suppression of the Fratres Humiliati for profligacy ( February 1571 ); the approbation of the new office of the Blessed Virgin ( March 1571 ); the enforcement of the daily recitation of the Canonical Hours ( September 1571 ); and the purchase of assistance against the Turks by offers of plenary pardon ( March 1572 ).

Thomas Cranmer ( 2 July 1489 – 21 March 1556 ) was a leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and, for a short time, Mary I.

Mary married Philip at Winchester Cathedral, on 25 July 1554.

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* July – The English ship Mary and Margaret, captained by Christopher Newport, leaves England bound for Jamestown, Virginia.

On August 16, 1837, Lincoln wrote Mary a letter suggesting he would not blame her if she ended the relationship.

In Plymouth, Massachusetts, there is a 1633 account of the husband of Mary Ring auctioning her cranberry-dyed petticoat for 16 shillings.

* The beginning of the nine-day celebration beginning December 16 and ending December 24, celebrating the trials which Mary and Joseph endured before finding a place to stay where Jesus could be born ( Christians of Spanish-origin ):

On 16 May 1880 Eliot courted controversy once more by marrying a man twenty years younger than herself, and again changing her name, this time to Mary Anne Cross.

* 1909 – Mary Pickford makes her screen debut at the age of 16.

This relationship was further strengthened by a visit from the President of Ireland Mary McAleese between 14 and 16 June 2006 on her speech about the long standing relationship with Lesotho and shared history between both nations.

* Mary ( Romans 16: 6 ), a New Testament woman

John 20: 16 and both straightforwardly say that Jesus ' first post-resurrection appearance was to Mary Magdalene alone.

also Mk 16: 9 ) emphasizes the special role of Mary Magdalene.

And while John calls her " Mary Magdalen " in 19: 25, 20: 1, and 20: 18, he calls her simply " Mary " in 20: 11 and 20: 16.

The Apostle Paul's Epistle to the Romans ( 16: 6 ) mentions a Mary.

According to Matthew and John, Jesus actually appeared first to women ( in Mark 16: 9 and John 20: 14 to Mary Magdalene alone ).

At age 16, Jefferson entered the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, and first met the law professor George Wythe, who became his influential mentor.

* December 16 – Mary Russell Mitford, English novelist and dramatist ( d. 1855 )

* July 16 – Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States ( b. 1818 )

* May 16 – Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England.

* April 16 – In England, John Winthrop, later governor of the future Massachusetts Bay Colony, marries his first wife ( of 4 ), Mary Forth, daughter of John Forth, of Great Stambridge, Essex.

* November – Mary Toft allegedly gives birth to 16 rabbits in England ; the story is later revealed to be a hoax.

* June 16 – Mary, Queen of Scots, recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir.

The wedding between Maximilian and Mary took place on the evening of 16 August 1477.

In that year his 16 year old daughter, Mary, travelled to London alone, to confront Bessemer at his offices, arguing that his success was based on the results of her father ’ s work.

By 16 February 1543, Catherine had established herself with Mary and was now part of her household.

The church was sanctified and dedicated to the Virgin Mary on November 16, 1106 by the Bishop of Chalon sur Saône.

* Lesser Feasts and Commemorations on the Lutheran liturgical calendar include Anthony of Egypt on January 17, Henry, Bishop of Uppsala, martyr Henry of Uppsala on January 19, Timothy, Titus and Silas, missionaries St Timothy, St Titus and St Silas Day on January 26, Ansgar, Bishop of Hamburg, missionary to Denmark and Sweden St Ansgar on February 3, Cyril, monk and Methodius, bishop, missionaries to the Slavs St Cyril and St Methodius on February 14, Gregory the Great on March 12, St Patrick on March 17, Olavus Petri, priest and Laurentius Petri, Bishop of Uppsala, on April 19, St Anselm on April 21, Catherine of Siena on April 29, St Athanasius on May 2, St Monica on May 4, Eric IX of Sweden on May 18, St Boniface on June 5, Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa and Gregory of Nazianzus on June 14, Benedict of Nursia on July 11, Birgitta of Sweden on July 23, St Anne, Mother of Mary on July 26, St Dominic on August 8, Augustine of Hippo on August 28, St Cyprian on September 16, Teresa of Avila on October 15, Martin de Porres on November 3, Martin of Tours on November 11, Elizabeth of Hungary on November 17, St Lucy on December 13.