527 comments on “Nominationtide Is Here!”

1. St Angela Merici

2. Emily Morgan, founder of the Society of the Companions of the Holy Cross as well as vacation houses for working women and children in Massachusetts' mills. Her feast day is February 27. I second MLK, Jr.

   1. Yes, I have been to Adelynrood and it is wonderful

3. Thomas Cranmer who is one of the Oxford Martyrs. Their Feast Day is October 16. He wrote and assembled the first two Books of Common Prayer and the THIRTY NINE ARTICLES OF FAITH of the Anglican Church. Recommended reading for anyone interested in his life is, THOMAS CRANMER by Diarmaid MacCulloch; it is detailed and comprehensive. This is the same author who wrote THE FIRST THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF CHRISTIANITY, which is the book used in the third year of EFM.

4. St Lucy of Syracuse

5. How about....Howard Thurman?

6. Fred Rogers
   Father Damien of Molokai

   1. I will second Mr Rogers like crazy.

   2. I've already seconded St. Fred of the Neighbourhood. I'll also second Fr. Damian.

7. St. Ronan - just because I'm curious about how Berkeley Divinity School at Yale came to have his name on their address. I second Robert E. Lee (misguided? Grant was the one who owned slaves at the end of the war) engineer and designer of St. Mark's Church, San Antonio, TX, vestryman.

8. St. Peter Claver, died 1654, who spent his ministry in Colombia working on behalf of the African slaves brought in by the boatload to work in the mines. He met the slave ships at the harbor and provided food, drink, and comfort, and continued to advocate for their fair treatment, visiting the plantations where they worked. He regarded them as fellow Christians and strove to learn their languages and customs. He is credited with baptizing over 300,000 African slaves and was regarded as a saint in his own time. He was a willing servant of the lowliest.

9. Margaret Sanger
   Henri Nouwen

   1. '+1 to both of these

10. I'd like to nominate Georgia Harkness for Lent Madness 2018.

11. Hilda of Whitby

12. Benedict of Nursia (but not because of The Benedict Option)

13. Leopold Mandić

14. Hugh of Lincoln.

15. Johann Sebastian Bach...for his craftmanship...his contribution to church music...the deeply spiritual quality that distinguishes so much of his music..the enormous impact of the two Passions never duplicated by sucteeding composers...his devotion to scripture of which he was obviously well informed. Where would music , one of God's miracles, be without Bach

16. Alfred the Great
    Saint Cecilia
    Saint Therese of Liseaux
    Saint Serguis
    Saint Gilbert (of Sempringham)

    1. Absolutely!

17. Clara Barton
    Walter Reuther
    Abraham Lincoln
    Catherine of Siena
    Andrew
    Juan Diego
    Thea Bowman
    St. Rose of Lima
    St Martin Porres
    Eleanor Roossevelt

18. I nominate William Wilberforce, one of my favorite saints. His passionate and uncompromising crusade for the abolition of slavery has been an inspiration to me all my adult life. Our world needs more leaders of "heroic greatness" today!

19. Ambrose
    Karl Barth
    Lucia
    St. Peter the Apostle
    Cornelius the Centurion
    Silas
    John Donne
    Alphege
    Joan of Arc
    Barnabas
    William White
    Mary of Bethany
    Martha of Bethany
    Lazarus of Bethany
    Paul Jones
    Hildegard
    Elizabeth of Hungary

20. Saint Agnes of Rome

21. St. Sava

22. I nominate Jean Vanier who is the founder of L'Arche. L'Arche provides group homes for individuals with intellectual (and often physical) disabilities or challenges. Caregivers work and live with these residents and provide excellent care and companionship with dignity. Monsieur Vanier resides in the original home in France. Here's are two helpful websites; the second has a biography of Vanier.
    https://www.larche.org/
    http://www.larche.ca:8080/

    1. Jean Vanier would be a worthy candidate someday, but he is still living.

23. Leonidas Polk, the Fighting Bishop. Bishop of Louisiana. Leading founder of the University of the South at Sewanee TN. West Point graduate and Confederate Army Corps Commander.

    William of Ockham, born in 1285, died 1347.
    Saint John the Baptist
    Charlemagne
    Louis IX, king of France, (Saint Louis)
    St Rose of Lima, 1586-1617

24. Kateri Tekawitha, saint from the Native Americans. Died in 1680.

25. Saint Patrick.

26. For the SEC's consideration:
    Harry Emerson Fosdick
    Dag Hammarskjold

27. I'd like to nominate St Dymphna, patron saint of the mentally ill! She's my favorite.

    Alternatively, Chiune Sugihara--he was a Japanese diplomat to Lithuania and a Christian in WW2 who saved thousands of Jewish people and families by fudging their paperwork to allow them to escape. He saw the danger that they were in, so he didn't wait for his superiors in Japan to come up with an opinion or orders, and spent all of his time hand-writing and signing visas. Even when he was forced to leave, he was said to have still been furiously hand-writing and handing out visas to Jewish people at the train station. He spent most of the rest of his life doing menial jobs like selling lightbulbs door-to-door. No one in his neighborhood really knew what he'd done until he died and all these Jewish strangers and ambassadors showed up on his doorstep to mourn. He did it knowing that it would eventually be career suicide, which is a huge deal in Japan, simply because he had to protect these vulnerable people in some way, acting according to his faith. Like Franz Jagerstatter from the 2017 contest, I think he's a saint for the 21st century.

    1. I strongly second Chiune Sugihara - his unselfish actions should be better known to the world!

       1. I also strongly second Chiune Sugihara (who was a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church). Many years after the war an interviewer asked him why he chose the course of action he did. Part of his response was "There is nothing wrong in saving many people's lives."

    2. I second St. Dymphna! She was murdered by her incestuous father when she resisted his advances. While in flight from him, she founded a hospital for the poor. A saint for survivors.
       http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=222

       I also nominate St. Wilgefortis, patron saint of intersex and queer people, and another one who resisted a forced marriage:
       http://jesusinlove.blogspot.com/2011/07/saint-wilgefortis-bearded-woman.html

       1. Neat, I never knew about St Wilgefortis!

28. Pauli Murray

29. Nominations
    Hagar the Egyptian, mother of Ishmael see Delores Williams: Sisters in the Wilderness
    George Fox
    Prisca
    Dom Helder Camara
    The woman with a flow of blood (new testament)
    Seattle chief of the Suquamish (1866)

    1. According to tradition, the woman with the flow of blood was Veronica, who wiped the face of Jesus as he was going to Calvary. My wife's Patron is Veronica.

30. Richard Rowland Kirkland known as The Angel of Fredericksburg. A Confederate soldier that faced gunfire from both sides to give water to the Union wounded. A fascinating story.