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John Eliot (c. 1604 – 21 May 1690) was a Puritan missionary to the American Indians who some called "the apostle to the Indians" and the founder of Roxbury Latin School in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1645.
- Puritan missionary, and religious teacher to American Indians
5 days ago · John Eliot was a Puritan missionary to the Native Americans of Massachusetts Bay Colony whose translation of the Bible in the Algonquian language was the first Bible printed in North America. Educated in England, Eliot graduated from Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1622 and emigrated to Boston in.
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Eliot, John (1604-1690) Puritan minister and pioneer missionary among Native Americans. Eliot left England, the land of his birth, in 1631 as a young Puritan pastor. He worked in Boston for a year, then established a church five miles away in Roxbury, where he remained for 58 years, until his death.
Historians customarily date the beginning of the modern missionary movement in 1792, with William Carey's voyage to India. But a full 150 years earlier, Puritan John Eliot was evangelizing...
Jun 10, 2018 · Leaving his comfortable home on a regular basis, John Eliot faithfully served simultaneously as pastor, missionary, husband, father, and medical doctor in the Indian villages. He took civilization with him, for the only civilizing force in all the world is the power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
It’s the Eliot Bible’s connection to Native American language and history though, that gives it particular resonance today. The book’s story begins in the 1630s, when a Puritan minister named John Eliot came to the Massachusetts town of Roxbury. His mission was clear: to convert the Native population to Christianity.
John Eliot, Missionary To the American Indians. (Transferred this year to 22 May with Nommensen) John Eliot was born in Hertfordshire, England, in 1604 and graduated from Cambridge in 1622. He taught school for a while, came under Puritan influence, and determined to become a minister.
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