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Saint Basil the Great (330 – 379) was bishop of Caesarea and a leading churchman in the 4th century. The Church considers him a saint and one of the “Cappadocian Fathers”, together with Saints Gregory the Theologian (Gregory Nazianzus) and…
Continue ReadingEnmegahbowh was an Odawa from Canada who converted to Christianity from Midewiwin. In 1851, James Lloyd Breck began a mission among the Ojibwa of Minnesota, and Enmegahbowh was a catechumen there. He was baptized by Breck, became a deacon, and…
Continue Reading“Joseph, a Levite, born in Cyprus, whom the apostles called Barnabas (son of encouragement), sold a field he owned, brought the money, and turned it over to the apostles.” (Acts 4:36f). This is the first mention we have of Barnabas.…
Continue ReadingEphrem (or Ephren or Ephraim or Ephrain) of Edessa was a teacher, poet, orator, and defender of the Faith. (To English-speakers, the most familiar form of his name will be “Ephraim.” It is the name of the younger son of…
Continue ReadingSt. Columba was born in County Donegal, Ireland, in the year 521, and was connected both on his father’s and mother’s side with the Irish royal family. He was carefully educated for the priesthood, and, after having finished his ecclesiastical…
Continue ReadingToday on the Calendar of Saints, we find Roland Allen (1868-1947, an Anglican priest and missionary to China and Africa. who worked to establish local, self-generating churches instead of ones supported by colonial missions. He was the author of the…
Continue ReadingIn 1890, Lucien Lee Kinsolving and James Watson Morris were sent as Episcopal missionaries to Brazil. The following year, they were joined by three other American missionaries. These five, along with six Brazilians, are now celebrated as the founders of…
Continue ReadingToday on the Calendar of Saints of the Episcopal Church we commemorate St. Boniface of Germany (680 – 754). St. Boniface, the Apostle of the Germans, was an 8th Century Englishman originally named Wynfryth (or Winfrid). He was born in…
Continue ReadingToday on the Calendar of Saints in the Episcopal Church we find Pope John XXIII, who was born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (25 November 1881 – 3 June 1963). Roncalli was elected as the 261st Pope of the Roman Catholic Church…
Continue ReadingToday on the calendar of the Episcopal Church, we commemorate astronomers Nicolaus Copernicus and Johannes Kepler. About Copernicus, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy tells us:
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