Entries for the tag ‘Christian Israelite Church’
Millennialist sect founded by John Wroe in 1822 in Ashton-under-Lyne.. 
- 12 November 1819: The first, nocturnal vision of Prophet Wroe in one of his fields at Tong Street, Bradford following his near-fatal fever
- 29 February 1824: Prophet John Wroe is baptised on the Leap Day in the Aire near Apperley Bridge before an audience of 30,000
- 17 June 1830: Prophet John Wroe exorcises the epileptic daughter of a Bradford wool-sorter
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