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Harriet Beecher Stowe was born on June 14, 1811 at Litchfield, Connecticut. The first twelve years of her life were spent in the intellectual atmosphere of Litchfield, which was a famous resort of ministers, judges, lawyers, and professional men. When…
Continue ReadingSaints Peter and Paul are the principle pillars of the Church founded by Christ. Saint Peter was chosen by Christ to be leader of apostles after Christ’s Ascension; it was through Peter that Christ endowed the Church with the power…
Continue ReadingSt. Irenaeus was born in or near Smyrna c. 135-140. Polycarp was then bishop of that city, and from his childhood Irenaeus listened to his discourses and received his instructions. The profound impression made upon his mind proves that he…
Continue ReadingIsabel Hapgood was born on November 21, 1851 in Boston Massachusetts. Her parents were Asa Hapgood and Lydia Anna Bronson Crossley who were of English-Scottish decent. Isabel had two brothers Asa Gustavus, a twin, and William Frank Hapgood. Isabel grew…
Continue ReadingJames Weldon Johnson was born in 1871 in Jacksonville, Florida. He was encouraged to study English literature and the European musical tradition. He attended Atlanta University with the intention that the education he received there would be used to further…
Continue ReadingOur principal sources of information about John the Baptist are references to his birth in the first chapter of Luke, references to his preaching and his martyrdom in the Gospels, with a few references in Acts, and references in the…
Continue ReadingThe commonly received account of the martyrdom of St. Alban meets us as early as the pages of Bede’s “Ecclesiastical History” (Bk. I, chs. vii and xviii). According to this, St. Alban was a pagan living at Verulamium (now the…
Continue ReadingBernard Mizeki was born about the year 1861 in Portuguese East Africa (Mozambique). In his early teens, he escaped from his native land and went to Capetown, South Africa. There he was befriended and converted by Anglican missionaries, receiving Holy…
Continue ReadingGeorge Berkeley (1685-1753) was an Irish philosopher and Church of England clergyman and later a bishop. He claimed that individuals can only directly know sensations and ideas of objects, not abstractions — a view that would influence Hume, Kant, and…
Continue ReadingEvelyn Underhill (Mrs. Hubert Stuart Moore) was born in 1850 and grew up in London. Her friends included Laurence Housman (poet and brother of the poet A E Housman) and Sarah Bernhardt (actress), and Baron Friedrich von Huegel, a writer…
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