527 comments on “Nominationtide Is Here!”

1. Pauli Murray. So recently added to Holy Men, Holy Women that she wasn't included in my copy when I had to fact-check the wonderful New Yorker article where I discovered this remarkable woman: exciting, courageous, tireless, and inspirational.

2. I would like to nominate Julia Tutwiler. She was an advocate for women's education and was instrumental in the admission of women to the University of Alabama. The school of social work, the main library and a dormitory (originally for women) carry her name. She was the president of the State Normal School in Livingston (now the University of West Alabama) and established another Normal School in Montevallo to train teachers. She also lead the movement for changes in Alabama's prison system and the establishment of prisons for women. A converted Episcopalion, social justice and progressive thought underlay all of her work. For example, she used bible reading in literacy education in Alabama's prisons and personally donated bibles to inmates.

3. I nominate: Gregory of Nysa, Gregory the Great, Catherine of Sienna, Cuthbert, Ausan, Jan Hus, Teresa of Avila, Athanasius,

   1. Aidan not ausan

4. I hope all of these are eligible:
   Thomas Tallis,
   William Tyndale,
   St. Bede,
   St. Dunstan,
   St. Lawrence,
   Thomas Becket,
   Jan Huss,
   Thomas Cranmer,
   Hilda of Whitby
   St. Benedict

   1. I agree! St Cuthburt.

      1. As am I!!!

   2. All should be, except of course the schismatic Thomas Cranmer. Otherwise I wholeheartedly second the nomination of Thomas Tallis

5. I agree with those who nominate St. Cuthbert of Lindisfarne!
   I also nominate St. Mungo, patron of Glasgow Cathedral, because I would like to learn more about him.
   Cheers!

6. I nominate Saint Olav, patron saint of Norway and namesake of St. Olaf College.
   (I'm slightly prejudiced-- I'm an alumnus and former faculty at St. Olaf and I have visited Olav's presumed resting place at the Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim.)

   1. I second this nomination! Hurray for St. Olaf!

7. Please, please, please!!! Gertrude of Nivelles deserves a chance at Lenten Madness Glory. She is the patron saint of cats, travelers, gardeners and the mentally ill. Her feast day is March 17.

8. I would like to nominate 4:
   Willie M. “Bill” Pickett, American western cowboy – 1870 to 1932.
   John Chapman – 1774 to 1845 - orchardist and nurseryman, member of the Church of Swedenborg.
   Father Damien, born Joseph de Veuster in Tremelo, Belgium, on January 3, 1840- ministered to lepers in Hawaii.
   William Penn Adair “Will” Rogers - 1879 to 1935
   Thanks to the SEC for all their hard work! Great ministry!

9. Dame Juliana Berners, OSB for my fly-fishing husband

10. Lawrence
    Anna Ellison Butler Alexander
    Susan Trevor Knapp

11. I nominate:
    Adomnan, biographer of St Columba and abbot of Iona who introduced the first law protecting innocents in times of war.
    Eglantine Jebb, Anglican, who founded Save the Children and wrote the charter on which the UN Charter on the Rights of the Child was based.
    Hildegard of Bingen.
    St Guinefort, for dog lovers everywhere. 🙂

12. Saints Cyril and/or Methodius, Ignatius of Loyola, Bede the Venerable, George Fox, Saint Patrick, Saint George, Saint Mark the Evangelist, Matthias the Apostle, Athanasius, John the Baptist, Gregory the Great, Clare of Assisi, Bernard of Clairvaux, Saint Vincent de Paul, Edward the Confessor, Martin of Tours, Samuel Seabury, Isaac Watts, and Ambrose of Milan

13. I nominate Katie Luther
    Former nun, participant in the reform movement
    Married to Martin - helped Luther form marital teachings
    Administrator and manager of the monastery
    Provider of hospitality to the many students and visitors to the monastery
    Maker of beer!
    Called by Luther "My Lord Katie."

14. I nominate St Longinus

15. I would like to nominate Brother Roger, the founder of the Taize Community.

16. I nominate Mr. Rogers.

17. Teresa of Avila because I'm having a really hard time making it through Interior Castles and would like to hear about her from different perspectives. She would be an interesting candidate.

18. I nominate St Gurtrude of Nivelles. Benedictine abbess. B 626 - D 659, Feast Day, March 17 Patron Saint of cats, mental illness, traveler, gardners & against rats

    1. On behalf of my cats Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker Gilbert and Anna Livia Plurabelle Gilbert, I second the nomination.

19. St Thomas. After a recent sermon at our church. I no longer see him as Doubting Thomas. Instead I see him as the Disciple who
    was the truth seeker.

20. Janani Luwum, Anglican Archbishop of Uganda and Martyr under Idi Amin.
    In a previous Lent Madness (can't remember the year) Janani lost to Oscar Romero (who, I see, is getting several nominations this year). Well, I think it's time for a rematch. Like Oscar, Janani courageously stood up to institutionalized Evil and paid for this courage with his life. His murder never received the extensive press coverage that Oscar's did and he is relatively unknown. His story should be told again.

21. I would like to nominate Juliette Gordon Low, good Episcopalian and founder of the Girl Scout movement in the USA.

    1. I'll gladly second!

22. I nominate the Reverend Dennis J. Bennett, who played a huge role in the Episcopal Charismatic movement. He authored several books, relating his personal experience with baptism in the Holy Spirit, how one can welcome the Holy Spirit, and how to live and relate to others in a spirit filled way. He was asked to resign at (the very large parish of) St. Mark's Episcopal in Van Nuys, California due to the press coverage of his experience, and continued his ministry at St. Luke's in Seattle, Washington

23. I support Pauli Murray........
    I would like to add Shirley Chisholm, a raised Barbadian like myself. a Politician I would love to be. I christian I am. A woman to grow into.
    Born November 30, the same date of my island's independence 50 years ago. 1966-2016.

    Shirley Anita St. Hill was born on November 30, 1924, in Brooklyn, New York, to immigrant parents from the Caribbean region.[4] She had three younger sisters,[5] two born within three years after Shirley, one later.[6] Their father, Charles Christopher St. Hill, was born in British Guiana,[7] lived in Barbados for a while,[6] and then arrived in the United States via Antilla, Cuba, on April 10, 1923, aboard the S.S. Munamar in New York City.[7] Their mother, Ruby Seale, was born in Christ Church, Barbados, and arrived in New York City aboard the S.S. Pocone on March 8, 1921.[8]

    Her father was an unskilled laborer who sometimes worked in a factory that made burlap bags, but when he could not find factory employment instead worked as a baker's helper, while her mother was a skilled seamstress and domestic worker who had trouble working and raising the children at the same time.[9][10] As a consequence, in November 1929 as Shirley turned five, she and her two sisters were sent to Barbados on the S.S. Vulcana to live with their maternal grandmother, Emaline Seale.[10] There they lived on the grandmother's farm in the Vauxhall village in Christ Church, where she attended a one-room schoolhouse that took education seriously.[11] She did not return to the United States until May 19, 1934, aboard the SS Nerissa in New York.[12] As a result, Shirley spoke with a recognizable West Indian accent throughout her life.[5] In her 1970 autobiography Unbought and Unbossed, she wrote: "Years later I would know what an important gift my parents had given me by seeing to it that I had my early education in the strict, traditional, British-style schools of Barbados. If I speak and write easily now, that early education is the main reason."[13] As a result of her time on the island, and regardless of her U.S. birth, Shirley would always consider herself a Barbadian American.[14] Regarding the role of her grandmother, she later said, "Granny gave me strength, dignity, and love. I learned from an early age that I was somebody. I didn't need the black revolution to tell me that."[15]

    Beginning in 1939, Shirley St. Hill attended Girls' High School in the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, a highly regarded, integrated school that attracted girls from throughout Brooklyn.[16] St. Hill earned her Bachelor of Arts from Brooklyn College in 1946, where she won prizes for her debating skills.[9] She was a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority.

    St. Hill met Conrad O. Chisholm in the late 1940s.[9][17] He had come to the U.S. from Jamaica in 1946 and would later become a private investigator who specialized in negligence-based lawsuits.[18] They married in 1949 in a large West Indian-style wedding.[18]

    Shirley Chisholm taught in a nursery school while furthering her education,[9] earning her MA in elementary education from Teachers College at Columbia University in 1952.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Chisholm

24. Jonathan Daniels, Jonathan Daniels, Jonathan Daniels! My other choices include: Cesar Chavez; Julia Chester Emery; Verna J. Dozier, and James Solomon Russell. All worthy candidates for the Golden Halo

25. Martin Luther King, Margery Kemp, Abraham Lincoln

26. Saint George!!

27. I nominate Pauli Murray.

28. St Phillip 1st century deacon

29. St Joseph of Cupertino: The Patron Saint of Pilots and Astronauts
    MLK Jr

30. Jean-Baptiste de la Salle -- French priest, educational reformer, and founder of the Christian Brothers