527 comments on “Nominationtide Is Here!”

1. Mother Marianne of Molokai or St. Damian DE Veuster

2. Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury. Church reformer who held the devil by the nose with a pair of tongs.

   http://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2012/05/stories-of-st-dunstan-4-dunstan-and.html

3. I nominate St. Joseph - (in my humble opinion) he never gets enough attention - Imagine being an "adoptive dad of the savior of all creation" As a step-parent, I feel his pain. Just for a moment, imagine the difficulty of grounding the don of God - just sayin' (and got those of you who would remind me that JC never sin, remember that other kids in the neighborhood did - and that Jesus needed to get used to being slandered.

   1. Correction: Son of God not don of God (although the Italians do claim St. Joseph and his pastries on March 19th...

      1. I would love to see Joseph (my Patron) back in the Bracket! Years ago, my wife and I were in Rome on his Feast Day. We attended Mass, which was followed by a procession.
         As they started down the aisle carrying the image of Joseph, an old woman cried out "Vive San Giuseppe!" and the congregation shouted back "Vive San Giuseppe!" Then we all followed his image out and processed through the streets of Rome, singing all the way. What a blessing from God.

4. Samuel Seabury

5. I concur with Florence Lim Ti Oi, Verna Dozier, Simone Weil, Henri Nouwen, Dorothy Day and a hearty yes to Fred Rogers (that one makes me cry).

6. St. Julia.....

7. St. Brendan of Clonfert. "The Navigator.." It's time for an Irish Saint to win the Golden Halo.

8. I nominate St. Polycarp

   At his martyrdom, Polycarp was told by the magistrate, "Swear and I will release thee: revile Christ"
   Polycarp's reply was, "Fourscore and six years have I been serving him, and he has done me no wrong; how then can I blaspheme my king who saved me?"

9. I wish to nominate Mother Teresa.

10. *Aidan of Lindisfarne who brought Christianity to northern England.
    *William Hobart Hare, bishop to the native Americans of South Dakota.

11. I second nominees Pauli Murray and Jonathan Daniels

    I'd also like to nominate James Theodore Holly, first African-American Bishop in the Episcopal Church and Bishop of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

12. Pierre Telihard de Chardin
    Frances Joseph Gaudet
    Hildegard of Bingen

13. Hildegard of Bingen

14. Father Damien of Molokai, Hawaii
    Agnes Sanford, Healer
    The Midwives in Genesis
    The Cistercian Martyrs of Algeria

15. St. Hilda of Whitby
    Dorothy Day

16. I would like to put forward the name of: Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press. Without this marvellous invention, we'd still be waiting for the upgrades to the Bible, as they were transcribed by hand.

17. Jonathan Myrick Daniels
    Martin Luther King, Jr.
    Dorothy Day
    Sophie Scholl
    Simone Weil
    Elizabeth I
    Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray

18. One more - The Rt. Rev. Duncan M. Gray, Jr.

19. Pandita Mary Ramabai

20. I add my support to the nominations of Madeleine L'Engle, Mychal Judge, J. S. Bach, Thomas Merton and Henri J. M. Nouwen. . .and add George MacDonald. This last was one of the chief inspirations of C. S. Lewis and the insight, wisdom and spirituality in his many unspoken sermons puts most modern preachers to shame.

21. I would like to nominate Jonathan Myrick Daniels, Episcopal seminarian and civil rights martyr.

22. St. Jacinta of Fatima and/or St. Bernadette of Lourdes. Might make a lovely arduous match up.

23. St Agnes
    Clare of Assissi

24. I nominate in this order:
    Henri Nouwen,
    St. Katherine Drexel,
    Hildegard of Bingen,
    St. Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, and
    St. Margaret of Scotland

25. As a chaplain, I often quote Fred Rogers to patients who are afraid that God must be mad at them (or why do they have whatever it is), and as former nanny I am so glad the kids I was with were able to have him as part of their lives. I learned a lot from him, maybe more than they did!
    Please add Mr. Rogers to the list!

26. I would like to nominate St Thomas, Origen and Tertullian. (not sure if he qualifies as a Saint, though.)

27. Charles de Foucauld..... a modern saint. We need to learn more of those born closer to us....

    1. A child from a Christian home (1858 to 1873)

    Charles de Foucauld et sa famille
    Charles was born in Strasbourg, France on September 15 1858 and was baptized two days after his birth.

    “My God, we should all sing your mercies: Son of a holy mother, I learned from her to know you, to love you and to pray to you. Was not my first memory the prayer she made me recite morning and evening: ‘My God, bless father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, grandmother Foucauld and my little sister’?...”

    But his mother, father and paternal grandmother all died in 1864. The grandfather took the two children, Charles (6 yrs) and Marie (3 yrs) into his home.

    “I always admired the great intelligence of my grandfather whose infinite tenderness enveloped my childhood and youth with an atmosphere of love, whose warmth I still can feel.”

    On April 28 1872, Charles made his first Holy Communion. He was confirmed the same day.
    http://www.charlesdefoucauld.org/en/biographie.php

28. Pauli Murray
    Jonathan
    The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
    Samuel Seabury
    Mother Theresa
    Jan Hus
    Hugh Latimer

29. Pauli Murray
    Florence Li Tim Oi

30. Yes! Thank you, Supremes, for this fun and inspiring way to increase our knowledge of Saints!
    My list:
    1. Florence Li-Tim Oi
    2. Archbishop Oscar Romero
    3. St. Cuthbert
    4. Junia, first woman bishop (that we know of)
    5. Dorothy Day
    6. Thomas Cranmer
    7. St. Seraphim of Sarov