The 1727 Miracle to Save European Christians
In 541 the first plague epidemic occurred in the Eastern Roman Empire. This black plagues spread as far as England and France for 60 years, killing hundreds of thousands of Europeans. In the 11th century, when the first Crusades returned to Europe from Palestine, the black plagues carried black rats was brought into Europe.
And then, in 1334, an epidemic set off in Hangzhou, China, and consequently the black plagues carried by black rats were introduced in Italy through Central Asia in October 1347. By 1348, the black plagues invaded Europe north of the Alps.
As a result, 20 to 30 million Europeans, meaning one third or a half of Europeans at the time, died of the plague. This plague gave various significant influences on Europe. Especially, most of French-speaking educators were exterminated in England, although since the Norman Conquest in 1066 education in England had been conduced in French by these French-speaking educators, so that education in England was started to be conducted in English after the plagues. Incidentally, quarantine was started in Venice in 1377.
In 1727, a large group of brown rats (Rattus norvegicus) got across the Volga river of Russia from east to west, spreading in Europe and driving out black rats from Europe. Since then, no black plague has set off in large magnitude in Europe.
Interestingly, it was around 17th to 18th century that brown rats invaded Japan. But, it was 1899 that black plague was first found in Japan as it came from China. However, Japanese deaths from the black plague was about 2,500 in following decades due to work by Shibasaburo Kitazato, who discoverd bacillus pestis, the disease germ of black plague, in 1894, and effective measures taken by then Imperial Government of Japan under guidance by Kitazato.
More specifically, Alexandre EJ Yersin, a French medical doctor, also separately found bacillus pestis at the same time as Kitazoto did. So, bacillus pestis has been called Yersinia pestis up to today. (When Imperial Japan was isolated from the world in WWII, the academic name Yersinia pestis was adopted internationally.)
The point at issue is that 70% or more of human infectious diseases were originated in animals. Although due to advancement of civil engineering and construction to shut out rats, public health systems, centralization of authority, etc., black plague has been eradicated, as civilization has invaded the nature all the more, the risk of encountering animals having new disease gems gets higher.
For example, the current corona virus pandemic was triggered in Wuhan, China, a big industrial city today but just an old city before the start of industrialization and introduction of market economy in China in 1980s.
As we cannot know what animals are in what conditions in China and other parts of the world with what viruses in a detailed manner, we cannot tell what fatal pandemic will start in future in such a region.
Finally, all we should do is to pray to the God, so that He would work such a miracle as that in 1727 to save European Christians.
As we cannot know what animals are in what conditions in China and other parts of the world with what viruses in a detailed manner, we cannot tell what fatal pandemic will start in future in such a region.
Finally, all we should do is to pray to the God, so that He would work such a miracle as that in 1727 to save European Christians.
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John 4
11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.