985 comments on “Nominations Open!”

1. I nominate St. Anne. She was on the list last year but she is not on the ineligible list. Jesus' Grandma deserves a second chance!

2. My two cats, Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker Gilbert and Anna Livia Plurabelle Gilbert, respectfully submit St. Gertrude of Nivelles, patron saint of cats for nomination. Their little hearts were so disappointed this year that she wasn't in the bracket.
   My nominations are John Muir, St Augustine of Canterbury, and Hildegard of Bingen.

3. I second (third?) Julian of Norwich and Teresa of Avila. I also second Fred Rogers and Oscar Romero. And I nominate Hadewijch.

4. My nominations are St. George, Patron Saint of England, and St. Thomas Aquinas. Thank you.

5. Constance and Her Companions:
   Ruth, Thecla, Frances, Hughetta, Louis and Charles

6. Yes to Fred Rogers.
   Also Sojourner Truth adn Frederick Douglass.
   And Venerable Bede -- all right, I have mentioned him before. But he is worth mentioning him again.

7. Elizabeth Seton

8. Martin Luther
   Philip Melanchton
   Dietrich Bonhoeffer
   Abraham Lincoln

9. St. Francis of Assisi, please.

   1. I agree,, St. Francis of Assisi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

10. How about Walter Raushenbusch/Adoniram Judson/Roger Williams

11. Damien of Molokai

    1. I second Damien of Molokai.

12. Florence Nightingale
    St. Andrew
    Thea Bowman
    Mary Breckinridge

    1. and Queen Elizabeth I of England -- we wouldn't be Anglicans without her!

       1. St. Martin de Porres
          St. Rose of Lima
          Madeleine l'Engle

          1. Greetings Ann, good call. I'm embarrassed that in my enthusiasm over you-know-who, I clean forgot not only the Queen her ownself, but our own dear St. Andrew. Sheeeesh! See you Sunday.
             From one of the choristers to one of our best acolytes,
             I remain,
             Very embarrassed,
             Madeleine

          2. Elizabeth Huntington Dyer, the first woman lay deputy to General Convention in 1946. Pauli Murray. Frances Willard.

             1. Monica

       2. yesyesyesyesyesyes!!!!!!

          1. Ooooops, I meant this for the QEI nomination!

          2. SecondSecondSecondSecond!!

          3. Second this one too! Used to have a St. Genesius medal back when I was involved in theatre

          4. Go Elizabeth I!!

          5. Second them all

13. Edith Cavell

14. I would like to nominate Eliza Shirley, who at the age of 16 brought the Salvation Army to the United States (Philadelphia) from England. While the Salvation Army doesn't have a church calendar, I don't think, she is an important figure in the history of the S.A.

15. Toyohiko Kagawa, Gregory the Illuminator (in honor of 100th anniversary of Armenian Genocide in 2015), Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy, Walter Rauschenbusch, Andrei Rublev

16. I would like to nominate John Woolman, the American "Quaker Saint." Also the priest-poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins. I would agree to Fred Rogers. Many others are good, too, but I didn't see Woolman or Hopkins among the nominees so far.

17. Hildegard of Bingen
    Henri Nouwen
    Damien of Molokai for sure!!

18. I have two nominations from the pages of Holy Women, Holy Men:

    Adelaide Teague Case, (commemoration on July 19), outstanding Christian educator and the first woman professor in an Episcopal or Anglican seminary.

    Lillian Hunt Trasher (commemoration on December 19), known as "Mother of the Nile" in caring for nearly 25,000 Egyptian orphans over the course of half a century, with virtually her sole source of support her cheerful and unwavering faith in the grace of God. She could be considered the "poster child" for Matthew 6:25 ff.

19. St. Brigid of Kildare
    St. Teresa of Avila
    St. Hildegard of Bingen
    St. Gertrude
    Deborah (Judges 4--5)

20. Second the nomination of Bp Jackson Kemper!

    Also, Mary Sumner, founder of the Mothers’ Union, which began in her husband’s parish of Old Alresford in Hampshire, eventually spreading to the Diocese of Winchester, then through dioceses in Great Britain, and ultimately into the British Empire, most notably in Canada, India, and New Zealand. It was both a simple idea (calling mothers together to offer mutual support) and also a radical one (mixing social classes and identifying motherhood as a profession of great importance). She remained president of the Mothers’ Union well into her 90s, and was instrumental in using the Mothers’ Union to rebuild Britain after WWI. She is commemorated on the liturgical calendars of a number of provinces of the Anglican Communion on August 9.

21. Richard Allen; Paul Jones; Harriet Starr Cannon; George Kennedy Allen Bell

22. David Pendleton Oakerhater
    Gregor Mendel - i know he's not on any calendar, but he should be!
    John Muir
    Vida Dutton Scudder

23. I'm curious - for what do you use the money gathered from the sale of all those saintly items ?

24. Brendan the Navigator

25. Fred Rogers, please. Pedro Arrupe. Saint Ignatius of Loyola. Is Florence
    Nightingale eligible?

26. My nominees (Science has been woefully underrepresented in the past
    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
    Nicolaus Copernicus, and Johannes Kepler
    Dorothy Hodgins
    Marie and Pierre Curie

27. I take comfort from the writings of two saintly women:

    St Julian of Norwich..."and all manner of things shall be well"
    St Therese of Lisieux ... "May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be..."

    AND....both of these will have a plethora of kitsch for added fun and reflection!

28. I nominate Etheldreda, the namesake of the SHN nun who instructed me in Anglicanism lo these many years ago!
    Also, Esther and Judith, valiant Old Testament women.

29. Jacob Riis

30. John Mason Neale, founder of the Society of St. Margaret and prolific translator and hymnal-contributor