Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Feb 9, 2012, 12:00 am
The British (or Scotus) prince Saint Eingan or Eneon Bhrenin, left Cumberland for Wales, where he built a chruch ended his days as a hermit at Llanengan near Bangor. He is said to have been a son of the chieftain Cunedda. Propers for Eingan of Llanengan - Hermit and Confessor The Collect. O GOD, who...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Feb 8, 2012, 12:00 am
In the biographies of the saints called the Acta Sanctorum which were preserved at the Abbey of Fécamp in Normandy it is said that he was born about 681 A.D., either in Devon or Cornwall, or more probably at Chidham, near Bosham, about 25 miles from Steyning. A birth in Chidham at that date would p...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Feb 7, 2012, 12:00 am
Roman soldier and covert Christian during a time of persecution. Exposed as a Christian, a military tribunal decided he was a good soldier who had made a mistake, told him to reconsider, and set him free; he promptly burned down a pagan temple. Arrested again, he was ordered to apostatize, then tort...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Feb 6, 2012, 12:00 am
Timothy, Titus, and Silas all appear in the New Testament writings as missionary companions of and co-workers with, the Apostle Paul. Titus is mentioned as a companion of Paul in some of his epistles (2 Co 2:13; 7:6,13,14; 8:6,16,23; 12:18; Gal 2:1-3; 2 Tim 4:10). Timothy has two New Testament lette...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Feb 5, 2012, 12:00 am
The Collect. O LORD, we beseech thee favourably to hear the prayers of thy people; that we, who are justly punished for our offences, may be mercifully delivered by thy goodness, for the glory of thy Name; through Jesus Christ our Saviour, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost ever, o...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Feb 4, 2012, 4:00 pm
(from 02/05) The Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan (日本二十六聖人, Nihon Nijūroku Seijin?) refers to a group of Christians who were executed by crucifixion on February 5, 1597 at Nagasaki. On August 15, 1549, Francis Xavier (later canonized by Gregory XV in 1622), Fr. Cosme de Torres, S.J. (a Jes...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Feb 4, 2012, 3:00 pm
(from 2/5) Agatha of Sicily or Saint Agatha (d. 251) is a Christian saint. Her memorial day is on February 5 according to the Gregorian calendar and February 18 on the Julian calendar (still used by some Eastern Orthodox churches). Agatha was born at Catania and she was martyred in approximately AD ...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Feb 4, 2012, 12:00 am
Cornelius (in Greek, Κορνήλιος) was a Roman Centurion who is considered by Christians to be the first Gentile to convert to the faith, as related in Acts of the Apostles. Stationed in Caesarea, Cornelius is depicted in the New Testament as a man full of good works and deeds of alms. Corneli...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Feb 3, 2012, 12:15 am
Anskar (in Latin, Ansgarius) was a monk of Saxon family, born in 801 (the year after the crowning of Charlemagne). In 826, when King Harald of Denmark asked Charlemagne's successors for missionaries, Anskar led a group to Denmark, and a few years later to Sweden. Because of unsettled political condi...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Feb 3, 2012, 12:00 am
... Βλάσιος, Armenian: Սուրբ Բարսեղ) was a physician and bishop of Sebaste (modern Sivas), Armenia. According to his ... candles (left unlighted for safety reasons) are used for the blessing of throats on the ... throat troubles and every other evil). Indeed, the first reference...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Jan 28, 2012, 12:00 am
Thousands of faithful Episcopalians gathered in St. Louis, Missouri in 1977 and agreed upon the Affirmation of St. Louis, a document which expressed our commitment to the historic and biblical faith of the Church. In Denver, Colorado, on January 28th 1978, the Rt. Rev. Albert Chambers (retired), alo...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Jan 27, 2012, 12:00 am
John was called "Chrysostom" ("Golden Mouth") because of his eloquence. He was a priest of Antioch, and an outstanding preacher. (Audiences were warned not to carry large sums of money when they went to hear him speak, since pickpockets found it very easy to rob his hearers -- they were too intent o...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Jan 26, 2012, 12:00 am
(ca. 69- ca. 155) was a Christian bishop of Smyrna (now İzmir in Turkey) in the second century. He died a martyr when he was stabbed and burnt at the stake. Polycarp is recognized as a saint in most Christian churches. It is recorded that "He had been a disciple of John." The options for this John ...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Jan 25, 2012, 12:00 am
The Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul is a feast celebrated during the liturgical year on January 25, recounting the Conversion of Saul of Tarsus, who after a record of brutalizing and persecuting Christians, converted to Christianity and became the apostle Paul. While on the road to Damascus (c...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Jan 24, 2012, 12:00 am
was a first-century Christian bishop who died about AD 80. Evidence from the New Testament also has him functioning as an apostolic delegate or coadjutor. Timothy is first mentioned in the Bible at the time of Paul's second visit to Lystra (16:2), where Timothy probably resided and where it seems he...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Jan 23, 2012, 12:00 am
(December 13, 1835 – January 23, 1893) is best known today as the author of "O Little Town of Bethlehem." Former generations, however, accounted him the greatest American preacher of the nineteenth century (and not for lack of other candidates). His sermons are still read. He was born in Boston in...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Jan 22, 2012, 12:00 am
The Collect. ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, mercifully look upon our infirmities, and in all our dangers and necessities stretch forth thy right hand to help and defend us; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The Epistle - Romans xii. 16. BE not wise in your own conceits. Recompense to no man evil f...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Jan 21, 2012, 6:00 pm
(From 01/22) He was born at Huesca but lived in Zaragoza (Saragossa in English; also in the Aragon region of Spain) and is also known as Saint Vincent the Deacon. The title "deacon" (diakonos) means minister or servant. Vincent served as the deacon of Saint Valerius, bishop of Saragossa. Imprisoned ...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Jan 21, 2012, 3:00 am
Graham Stuart Staines (1941-January 1999) was an Australian missionary who was burnt to death while he was sleeping with his two sons Timothy (aged 9) and Philip (aged 7) in his station wagon at Manoharpur village in Keonjhar district in Orissa, India in January 1999. In 2003, the Hindu activist Dar...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Jan 21, 2012, 12:00 am
According to tradition, Saint Agnes was a member of the Roman nobility born c. 291 and raised in a Christian family. She suffered martyrdom at the age of twelve during the reign of the Eastern Roman Emperor Diocletian, on January 21, 304. The prefect Sempronius wished Agnes to marry his son, and on ...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Jan 18, 2012, 3:00 am
January 18 is the Feast of the Confession of Peter ("Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God" Matthew 16:16). January 25 is the Feast of the Conversion of Paul (Acts 9). Many Christians observe the eight days from January 18 to January 25 inclusive as a time of special prayer that all Christi...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Jan 18, 2012, 1:00 am
Was a Roman young woman (virgin) tortured and executed for her Christian faith. She is revered as a saint and a martyr by the Church. The Christians buried her body at the tenth milestone on the road from Rome to Ostia. Propers for Prisca of Rome - Virgin Martyr The Collect. ALMIGHTY and everlasting...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Jan 18, 2012, 12:00 am
The Confession of Peter is a statement made by Saint Peter the Apostle in the Synoptic Gospels of Matthew 16:13–20, Mark 8:27–30, and Luke 9:18–20, in which he emphatically acknowledged Jesus as the "Messiah" or "Christ" (meaning the Anointed One). The Confession of Peter is also the name of a...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Jan 17, 2012, 12:00 am
Before the conversion of the Emperor Constantine in 312 AD, back in the days when Christianity was still a persecuted religion, the act of becoming a Christian involved turning one's back on the pursuit of security, of fashionable prestige and popularity, of success as the term is widely understood....
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Jan 16, 2012, 12:00 am
bishop of Rome from May 308 to 309, succeeded Marcellinus, after a considerable interval, most probably in May or June 308. Under Maxentius he was banished from Rome in 309 on account of the tumult caused by the severity of the penances he had imposed on Christians who had lapsed under the recent pe...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Jan 15, 2012, 12:00 am
The Collect. ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who dost govern all things in heaven and earth; Mercifully hear the supplications of thy people, and grant us thy peace all the days of our life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The Epistle - Romans xii. 6. HAVING then gifts differing according to the ...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Jan 14, 2012, 6:00 pm
(from 01/15) lived during the reign of Decius and Vallerian in 255. He came from Thebes in Egypt. Because he knew that his brother-in-law was going to turn him over to Decius and Vallerian as a Christian, he fled away like David into the desert and up to the mountains. St. Jerome relates the meeting...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Jan 14, 2012, 3:00 pm
(from 01/15) (30 November 1594 – 15 January 1672) He was born at Norwich, and was educated at Norwich grammar school and at Caius College, Cambridge, where he was scholar and afterwards fellow.[1] On taking orders he was appointed secretary to Bishop Overall of Lichfield, and then domestic chaplai...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Jan 14, 2012, 12:00 am
(ca. 300 – 368) was bishop of Poitiers ('Pictavium') and considered an eminent doctor of the Western Christian Church. He was sometimes referred to as the malleus Arianorum ("hammer against Arianism") and the “Athanasius of the West”. His name comes from the Greek word for happy or cheerful, t...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Jan 13, 2012, 12:00 am
Grandson of the British prince Lothus. Hermit. Monk. Missionary to Scotland, beginning at Cathures. Bishop of the Strathclyde Britons in the area of modern Glasgow in 540. He taught and led there for 13 years, living in great austerity. Exiled in 553 during an anti-Christian uprising by local pagans...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Nov 2, 2011, 12:00 am
The Collect. O GOD, the Creator and Redeemer of all the faithful: grant unto the souls of thy servants and handmaids the remission of all their sins; that through devout supplications they may obtain the pardon they have always desired. Who with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, lives...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Nov 1, 2011, 12:00 am
... to May 13 in 609 or 610, when Pope Boniface IV consecrated the Pantheon at Rome to the Blessed Virgin ... the Pious, issued "at the instance of Pope Gregory IV and with the assent of all the bishops," ... of November. The octave was added by Pope Sixtus IV (1471-1484). The festival was retai...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Oct 31, 2011, 12:00 am
On 31 Oct 1517 (the Eve of All Saints), Brother Martin Luther a Augustinian Friar posted his 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church, Wittenberg, Saxony outlining erroneous and corrupt practices taking place in the medieval Church. Through the centuries the story has been twisted to sound as if Br. M...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Oct 30, 2011, 12:05 am
The Collect. O GOD, forasmuch as without thee we are not able to please thee; Mercifully grant that thy Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The Epistle - Ephesians iv. 17. THIS I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that yet henceforth wa...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Oct 30, 2011, 12:00 am
The Collect ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who didst will to restore all things in thy well-beloved Son, the King of kings and Lord of lords: Mercifully grant that all the kindreds of the earth, set free from the captivity of sin, may be brought under his most gracious dominion; who liveth and reign...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Oct 29, 2011, 12:00 am
was born at Hurstpierpoint in Sussex, England, on 3 September 1847. A poor scholar, he left school at fifteen to work in his father's Brighton counting house. At twenty-one, Hannington decided to pursue a clerical career, and entered university at St. Mary's Hall, Oxford, where he again proved to be...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Oct 28, 2011, 12:00 am
... Lebbaeus. He is sometimes identified with Jude, brother of Jesus, but is ... later the betrayer of Jesus. Saint Jude's attribute is a club. ... or a book (the Epistle of Jude) or holding a carpenter's ... extra-canonic parallel. Ss. Simon and Jude were martyred about 65 AD ... Propers for S...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Oct 26, 2011, 12:00 am
(Old English: Ælfrēd, Ælfrǣd, "elf counsel") (849 – 26 October 899) was King of Wessex from 871 to 899. Alfred is noted for his defence of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of southern England against the Vikings, becoming the only English monarch to be accorded the epithet "the Great". Alfred was the ...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Oct 25, 2011, 12:00 am
Born to a noble Roman family in the 3rd century AD, Saints Crispin and Crispinian, twin brothers, fled persecution for their faith, winding up in Soissons, where they preached Christianity to the Gauls and made shoes by night. Their success attracted the ire of Rictus Varus, the governor of Belgic G...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Oct 23, 2011, 12:00 am
The Collect. LORD, we beseech thee, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil; and with pure hearts and minds to follow thee, the only God; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The Epistle - 1 Corinthians i. 4. I THANK my God always on your behalf, fo...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Oct 20, 2011, 2:10 pm
Mr. Curtis, I am sorry to be emailing you out of the blue, but yours is the only email I can find of the RTBP blog and I think you may be interested in hearing this. As well, if this could be shared among fellow Anglican bloggers it would be appreciated, we are in dire straits here and wish to share...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Oct 20, 2011, 12:15 pm
Telling The Stories That Matter: October 20 - Henry Martyn, Missionary, Witness to Calling
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Oct 19, 2011, 12:00 am
(c. 650 – 19 October 727; Old English: Friðuswīþ; also known as Frithuswith, Frideswith, Fritheswithe, Frevisse, or simply Fris) was an English princess and abbess who is credited with establishing Christ Church in Oxford. Born in Oxford, which was then in the Kingdom of Mercia, St. Frideswide ...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Oct 18, 2011, 12:00 am
Almost all that we know about Luke comes from the New Testament. He was a physician (Col 4:14), a companion of Paul on some of his missionary journeys (Acts 16:10; 20:5; 27-28). Material found in his Gospel and not elsewhere includes much of the account of Our Lord's birth and infancy and boyhood, s...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Oct 17, 2011, 12:00 am
was a medieval Anglo-Saxon Archbishop of Canterbury. A correspondent of both Bede and Boniface, it was Nothelm who gathered materials from Canterbury for Bede's historical works. After his appointment to the archbishopric in 735, he attended to ecclesiastical matters, including holding church counci...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Oct 16, 2011, 12:00 am
The Collect. LORD, we pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow us, and make us continually to be given to all good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The Epistle - Ephesians iv. 1. I THEREFORE, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Oct 15, 2011, 3:00 pm
(from 10/15) When Henry VIII of England died, he left three heirs: his son Edward and his two daughters, Mary and Elizabeth. Edward succeeded to the throne and was a staunch Anglican (or at least his advisors were). Under his rule, the church services, previously in Latin, were translated into Engli...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Oct 15, 2011, 12:00 am
The third child of Don Alonso Sanchez de Cepeda by his second wife, Doña Beatriz Davila y Ahumada, who died when the saint was in her fourteenth year, Teresa was brought up by her saintly father, a lover of serious books, and a tender and pious mother. After her death and the marriage of her eldest...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Oct 14, 2011, 12:00 am
Schereschewsky was born in Tauroggen, Russian Lithuania 6 May 1831. He appears to have been named for his father. His mother was Rosa Salvatha. Orphaned as a young boy, it is speculated he was raised by a half-brother who was a timber merchant in good circumstance. Having shown himself to be a promi...
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Kevin C. posted an article on The Ohio Anglican Blog - Oct 13, 2011, 12:00 am
Edward was born in 1003. He was the last Saxon king to rule (for more than a few months) in England. He is called "Edward the Confessor" to distinguish him from another King of England, Edward the Martyr (c962-979). In Christian biographies, the term "confessor" is often used to denote someone who h...
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