Santa Cruz del Valle de los Caidos, world's largest cross, 152.4 meters high 1942 National Association of Evangelicals founded 1945 On the Feast of the Annunciation, "Our Lady" appears to a simple woman, Ida Peerdeman, in Amsterdam. This is the first of 56 appearances as "Our Lady of All Nations", which took place between 1945 and 1959. 1945 Dietrich Bonhoeffer is executed by the Nazis 1945 Ludwig Müller 1945 The Nag Hammadi library is discovered 1946–1952 Revised Standard Version, revision of AV "based on consonantal Hebrew text" for OT and best available texts for NT, done in response to changes in English usage 1947 Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism by Carl F. H. Henry, a landmark of Evangelicalism versus Fundamentalism in US 1947 Oral Roberts founds the Evangelistic Association 1947 Dead Sea scrolls discovered 1947 Lutheran World Federation founded 1948 World Council of Churches is founded 1948 Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, see also Christian Zionism 1949 Evangelist Billy Graham preaches his first Los Angeles crusade 1949, October 2: Saint John Evangelical Lutheran Community – Comunidade Evangélica Luterana São João da Igreja Evangélica Luterana do Brasil – is founded in Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul 1950 First part of the Common Confession between the American Lutheran Church and the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod is adopted, resulting in the schism of the Orthodox Lutheran Conference 1950 New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures released 1950 Assumption of Mary decreed by Pope Pius XII 1950 Missionaries of Charity founded by Mother Teresa 1951 Bishop Fulton Sheen (1919–1979) debuts his television program Life is Worth Living on the DuMont Network, a half hour lecture program on Roman Catholic theology that remained the number one show on U.S. television for its time slot, winning several Emmys until Sheen ended the program in 1957 1951 The Last Temptation of Christ, a fictional account of the life of Jesus written by Nikos Kazantzakis, wherein Christ's divinity is juxtaposed with his humanity, is published, and promptly banned in many countries 1951 Campus Crusade for Christ founded at UCLA 1952 Novum Testamentum Graece, critical edition of Greek NT, basis of modern translations, published 1952 C. S. Lewis' Mere Christianity published 1954 Unification Church founded by Reverend Sun Myung Moon, under the name Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity (acronym HSA-UWC) 1956 Anchor Bible Series 1956 The Ten Commandments (1956 film)