In that setting, saints were a lot like apps: mobile, easy-to-use, and applicable to all sorts of everyday situations. Lost keys? Selling your house? Not unless you bury St. Joseph in the yard. Computer troubles? Saint Isidore of Seville can help. Not a morning person? As a still relatively new member of the Episcopal Church, I appreciate the high-minded reasonableness with which we approach our religious traditions.
Like many Episcopalians, I am going to a worship service today where we will call upon and celebrate that great cloud of witnesses. For the past few years the homilists have approached this issue head-on. One year I heard an ultra-rational approach where saints were described as past examples that we should model our lives on.
Only rarely have I heard a homilist acknowledge what remains for many a quietly held article of faith: namely, just how helpful this cloud of witnesses can be, especially when you find yourself in a tight fix.
Two experiences have hammered this home to me. The first has to do with the chapel space at the Episcopal Church Center. Day after day, people from all walks of life enter to light tall, tapered candles in front of a statue of the Virgin Mary. Particularly on evenings when I work late, I love to step into the chapel space and observe these flickering prayers before heading home. This is undoubtedly the most popular corner of this large worship space, and the frequency with which those tapered candles have to be replaced speaks to aspects of faith that are harder to name, harder to define, yet are powerful and real for many.
Hilary of Poitiers, Jan. Hilda of Whitby , Nov. Hildegard of Bingen , Sept. Cornelius Hill , June Walter Hilton , Nov. John Henry Hobart , Sept. Holy Cross Day , Sept. Holy Innocents , Dec. James Theodore Holly , March Richard Hooker , Nov. John Horden , Dec. Hugh of Lincoln , Nov. Robert Hunt , April James Otis Sargent Huntington , Nov. William Reed Huntington , July Jan Hus , July 6.
Anne Hutchinson , Feb. Ignatius of Antioch , Oct. Ignatius of Loyola , July Independence Day , July 4. Innocent of Alaska , March Irenaeus , June James the Apostle , July Philip and James , May 1. James of Jerusalem , Oct. Jeanne d'Arc Joan of Arc , May Jerome , Sept. John , Apostle and Evangelist , Dec.
John the Baptist ], Aug. Nativity of St. John the Baptist , June John of Damascus , Dec. James Weldon Johnson , June Samuel Johnson , Aug. Absalom Jones , Feb. Paul Jones , Sept. Joseph , March Joseph of Arimathea , Aug. Frances Joseph-Gaudet , Dec. Juan de la Cruz , Dec. Simon and Jude , Oct. Dame Julian of Norwich , May 8. Justin , June 1. Hiram Hisanori Kano , Oct.
John Keble , March Marjery Kempe , Nov. Jackson Kemper , May Thomas Ken , March Johannes Kepler , May Martin Luther King, Jr. Ini Kopuria , June 6. John LaFarge , Dec.
Hugh Latimer , Oct. William Laud , Jan. William Law , April Lawrence of Rome, Aug. Leo the Great , Nov. Lewis , Nov. Florence Li Tim-Oi , Jan. Eric Liddell , Feb. Louis , King of France , Aug. Lucy of Syracuse, Dec. Luke , Oct. Martin Luther , Feb. Luthuli , July Janani Luwum , Feb Macrina of Caesarea, July Margaret of Scotland , Nov. Mark the Evangelist , April Thurgood Marshall , May Martin of Tours , Nov.
Henry Martyn , Oct. The Martyrs of Japan , Feb. The Martyrs of Lyons , June 2. Martyrs of New Guinea , Sept. The Martyrs of Uganda , June 3. Mary the Virgin , Aug. Mary Magdalene , July Mary and Martha of Bethany , July Matthew , Sept. Matthias , Feb. Frederick Denison Maurice , April 1. William W. Mayo , March 6. Robert McDonald , Dec. Charles Menninger , March 6. Thomas Merton , Dec. Michael and All Angels , Sept.
Bernard Mizeki , June Monica , May 4. Charlotte Diggs Lottie Moon , Dec. Emily Malbone Morgan , Feb. John Raleigh Mott , Oct. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg , Oct. William Augustus Muhlenberg , April 8. John Muir , April Pauli Murray , July 1.
Elie Naud , Sept. John Mason Neale , Aug. John Henry Newman , Feb. Nicholas of Myra , Dec. Florence Nightingale , Aug. Ninian , Sept. David Pendleton Oakerhater , Sept. Samson Occum , July William Passavant , Jan. Social Reformers 5.
Early Church Teachers and Theologians 6. Early Christian Disciples and Apostles 7. Actors, Artists, Musicians and Entertainers 8. Scientists, Explorers and Inventors 9. Comic Book Characters. Return to Top of Page. George Washington: First U. President James Madison: Fourth U. President James Monroe: Fifth U. President John Tyler: Tenth U. Arthur: Twenty-first President Franklin D. Jane Austin: author Emma, Pride and Prejudice. James Blish: science fiction author A Case of Conscience , etc.
Philip K. Dick: science fiction author Blade Runner , etc. John Keats: poet P. William Wordsworth: author and poet. Charles Babbage: mathmatician and theorist behind computer technology Sir Francis Bacon Robert Boyle: scientist, father of modern chemistry Captain John Cook Sir Charles Darwin Hannible Goodwin: perfected the use of photoemersion allowing motion pictures to be made Robert Hooke: scientist developed the theory of elasticity and proposed wave theory for light Edward Jenner: scientist, vaccination for smallpox Guglielmo Marconi: inventor of the radio Margaret Mead: anthropologist.
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