Salma Yaqoob

Salma Yaqoob (formally Jacob) (born 15 August 1971) is a British political activist and psychotherapist.
She served as leader and vice-chairman of the Respect Party, and represented the party on Birmingham City Council. She led the Birmingham Stop the War Coalition and is a patron of Stop the War Coalition UK. She unsuccessfully stood to be the Labour Party candidate for Mayor of the West Midlands in the 2021 mayoral election, finishing third out of three candidates.
She has been a spokesperson for Birmingham Central Mosque.
Yaqoob has also contributed to news outlets, including "HuffPost", "The Guardian" and the "New Statesman".
Early life.
Yaqoob's parents, Mohammed and Gubzubda Yaqoob, emigrated to the UK from Pakistan in the 1960s, and her father worked in a mill before joining the Royal Mail. Yaqoob was born in Bradford on 15 August 1971: the family later moved to Birmingham, where she was raised. She describes herself as having been a "tomboyish girl" who played football on the streets of Alum Rock.
Yaqoob became politically active after the September 11 attacks. She claims to have been spat at on the streets of Birmingham in the days following the attacks.
Professional career.
Yaqoob runs a part-time psychotherapy practice.
She is employed as a Community Engagement Senior Manager at the Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.
In April 2014, she was appointed Independent Chair of the Stakeholder Council of Birmingham South Central Clinical Commissioning Group.
Political career.
Respect.
2005 general election.
At the 2005 general election, she stood as the Respect candidate for the Birmingham Sparkbrook and Small Heath constituency against Labour MP Roger Godsiff, with the backing of the Muslim Association of Britain. She finished in second place, ahead of the Liberal Democrat and Conservative candidates, and with 27.5% of the total vote.
2006: elected as Respect councillor.
Yaqoob was elected with 49.4% of the vote in the Sparkbrook ward of Birmingham City Council in the 2006 local elections. She was re-elected to the post in May 2010.
2010 general election.
Yaqoob stood in the 2010 general election for the Respect Party in the Birmingham Hall Green constituency, and came second to Roger Godsiff of the Labour Party, trailing by 3,799 votes.
Yaqoob attained 13.9% of the vote, chiefly from the Labour incumbent – the Labour candidate lost 11.7% of the total vote, election-to-election. The Green Party, after a members' vote, had stood down its candidate in favour of Yaqoob. She was endorsed by then-Green Party leader Caroline Lucas and the retiring Labour MP for Birmingham Selly Oak, Lynne Jones.
In 2011 Yaqoob claimed to have been offered a choice of two 'safe seats' by the Labour Party, one in Birmingham and one in the Black Country, in the lead-up to the 2010 general election. She stated she had declined the offer.
Yaqoob became the leader of the Respect Party, making her the only Muslim female leader of a Parliamentary political party in British history.
Council ceremony in 2011.
At a Birmingham City Council meeting in early February 2011, Yaqoob and another Respect Party councillor, Mohammed Ishtiaq, sat with their arms folded and refused to participate in a standing ovation at a meeting at which Britain's most highly decorated serving marine and Afghanistan veteran Lance Corporal Matthew Croucher, GC, RMR was a guest. This led to widespread criticism from other councillors, including allegations that it was a disrespectful act. The two councillors argued they were protesting against "false patriotism" by politicians, while defending their own history of support of individual troops.
Martin Mullaney, a Liberal Democrat councillor, alleged afterwards that Yaqoob would have applauded were the 21 July failed bombers being honoured. He later apologised for this claim.
Media appearances for Respect.
Yaqoob has made six appearances on the panel of BBC One's "Question Time" programme. Her first appearance was in Skegness, 19 January 2006, shortly before her election as a councillor. She returned in Preston (October 2006), followed by her home town of Birmingham on 8 February 2007 and Bath on 12 February 2009.
On 10 December 2009, "Question Time" was held in Wootton Bassett, a town where the bodies of UK troops killed in Afghanistan pass through and are informally mourned. Salma Yaqoob stated that she "would be proud to have my sons defend this country" and argued for better support for UK troops and their withdrawal from Afghanistan.
She made her sixth appearance on the show on Thursday 10 June 2010, when it was broadcast from Plymouth. She was joined on the panel by Ben Bradshaw, Jeremy Hunt, Katie Hopkins and Toby Young.
Yaqoob has also made appearances on "The Politics Show", "This Week", "Daily Politics", "10 O'Clock Live", and "Frost Over The World".
Independent.
Resignation as councillor and leaving Respect.
On 7 July 2011, Yaqoob announced her intention to stand down as a Birmingham City councillor, citing health reasons.
On 11 September 2012, Yaqoob announced her resignation from the Respect Party after what she described as a difficult few weeks and a breakdown in relations. Yaqoob had distanced herself from comments made by George Galloway about rape and the allegations made against Julian Assange. In an interview with Aida Edemariam of "The Guardian", Yaqoob said that she was being forced into making a "false choice" between Galloway's "anti-imperialist stances" and defending women's rights. Green Party MP Caroline Lucas and Labour MP Richard Burden publicly offered their support to Yaqoob.
In December 2015, it was reported that Yaqoob had applied to become a Labour Party member in Hall Green. The local constituency executive committee refused her membership, for she had previously stood against Labour candidates and previously opposed the Iraq war started by the Labour Party
Hands off Birmingham schools.
Yaqoob co-led the "Hands off Birmingham schools" group, which was set up in 2014 in response to Operation Trojan Horse.
Iain Duncan Smith "scrounger" comment.
In 2014 episode of "Question Time" which went viral online, Yaqoob called the then-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith "patronising" for his views on poverty. She also said that Duncan Smith "labels poor people as scroungers when [he] claim[s] £39 for a breakfast" and "live[s] on [his] wife's estate and [has] taken a million pounds of taxpayers' money, that's what I call scrounging". Duncan Smith denied claiming the money for his breakfast or labelling poor people as "scroungers".
2017 general election.
Yaqoob stood in the 2017 general election as an independent candidate in the Bradford West constituency. She came third with 13.9% of the votes, 2.7% behind the second-placed Conservative Party candidate. Her standing was mired in controversy, after complaints by Labour HQ about her use of photographs of her with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and her claims that she was a pro-Corbyn candidate. Responding to the complaint, Yaqoob stated that "at no point in the leaflet do I make the claim of an endorsement from Jeremy Corbyn or the Labour Party." A spokesperson for the party later clarified that "there is only one Labour Party candidate in Bradford West and that is Naz Shah." In response, Yaqoob claimed that the statements made by Labour constituted "malicious accusations" and said that Shah was playing a "petty political game".
Labour Party.
2020 West Midlands Mayoral Candidacy.
In September 2019, Yaqoob announced that she had applied for the Labour Party candidacy for Mayor of the West Midlands in the 2021 West Midlands mayoral election, an executive position responsible for the metropolitan county of the West Midlands despite her previous opposition to the Iraq war. The current position is held by Conservative Andy Street. Her campaign for the candidacy was framed around progressivism, anti-austeritism and the Green New Deal.
Yaqoob's application was criticised in a leaked email written by Labour MP Naz Shah published in October 2019. In this Shah bitterly criticised Yaqoob, calling her "despicable", following the 2017 campaign in which Yaqoob stood against her, concluding: "I believe she endorsed misogyny, patriarchy and biradri politics". In a "Guardian" article, Yaqoob denied running such a campaign, but issued a statement stating that "I did not run or endorse a campaign of misogyny, patriarchy and clan politics. Even as a political opponent I showed her respect as a woman and a public figure". She also said: "As shadow equalities and women minister, I would hope Naz Shah would welcome the principle of women coming forward for political office – even those she disagrees with. I am saddened that she is lobbying nationally to limit the right of local Labour members to make their own choice by seeking to remove me from even a potential shortlist." Yaqoob retained the support of Momentum head Jon Lansman, and was eventually endorsed by Momentum.
Death threats.
Yaqoob has received death threats from Islamist and far right extremists.
In 2005, she faced harassment and death threats from al Ghurabaa, an extremist Islamist group later banned under the Terrorism Act 2006. Al-Ghurabaa claimed that it is apostasy for Muslims to participate in Western elections, and its members defaced her election posters with the word "Kafir". Yaqoob believed she was being targeted for being a Muslim woman in the public eye and for working with churches and synagogues.
In August 2009, Birmingham man Stuart Collins appeared in court charged with threatening to kill Yaqoob and with racially and religiously aggravated harassment.
In 2013, she was threatened with having her throat cut in an online article which talked about "smashing Pakistani people, taking a nail bomb into a Mosque and rioting in Birmingham" and said: "If that Salma Yaqeubs [sic] there, cut her f*****g throat."
Personal life.
Yaqoob married her first husband Dr Aqil Chaudary, a GP, in 1996; they have three sons. Her family are supporters of Arsenal F.C.
Recognition.
In 2006, Yaqoob received the Lloyds TSB Asian Jewel Award for Public Service Excellence, while "Harper's Bazaar" magazine named her in the top thirty list of British women, alongside Kate Winslet, all of whom they considered to be 'women shaping Britain'.
In 2008, she was voted to eleventh place in the "Birmingham Post"s Power 50 list of the most influential people in the city. She was included in the newspaper's list again in 2009. It called her "a doughty fighter for inner city areas". During this year, she was also included in "The Daily Telegraph"s annual list of 'Top 100 left wingers'.
In 2009, Yaqoob was included in the Muslim Women Power List run by the Equality and Human Rights Commission in association with "The Times" and "Emel" magazine.
In 2010, "The Guardian" newspaper said Yaqoob was "the most prominent Muslim woman in British public life".
In January 2015, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Birmingham City University.
See also.
List of British Pakistanis


Jean Bourdon

Jean Bourdon (c. 1601 – 1668) was the first engineer-in-chief and land-surveyor in the colony of New France, and the first attorney-general of the Conseil Superieur.
Bourdon came to New France in 1634 and he was designated as the engineer to Governor Charles de Montmagny. In 1639, the governor made a land grant to him of and, later, he built a mill. He also built a chapel on it for his friend, Abbé Jean Le Sueur. This was only one of several seigneuries that Bourdon received.


Anna Maria Adorni Botti

Anna Maria Adorni Botti (19 June 1805 - 7 February 1893), born Anna Maria Adorni before her marriage, was an Italian Roman Catholic widow who later became a professed religious in the Handmaids of the Immaculata - an order that she herself established in 1857. Botti's vocation was to the religious life and as a child believed she was destined for the missions and later as a nun of the Order of Friars Minor. After being widowed she did pastoral work in Parma where she established and ran her order until her death.
Botti was beatified on 3 October 2010 in the Parma Cathedral and the then-Archbishop Angelo Amato presided over the beatification on the behalf of Pope Benedict XVI who had approved the cause months before.
Life.
Anna Maria Adorni was born in Fivizzano on 19 June 1805 to Matteo Adorni and Antonia Zanetti; she was baptized the following 23 June. At the age of seven - in 1812 - left her home with a friend to join the missions but this never materialized as she was bought back home. However the religious calling within her blossomed and she was resolved to live her life in the service of God.
At the age of fifteen in 1820 she lost her father and then moved with her mother to Parma; it was around this time that she wanted to become a nun of the Order of Friars Minor but respected the opposition of her mother in the sense that she required Adorni's aid. On 18 October 1826 she married Antonio Domenico Botti - who worked at the Parma ducal palace - and the couple had six children; five of those children died during their childhood and left a sole son Leopoldo. The latter went on to become a monk of the Order of Saint Benedict.
On 23 March 1844 her husband died and left her widowed. She began to visit prisoners and also educate street girls while roaming the streets of Parma and with a group of people who shared her ideals formed a union - known as the Institute of the Good Shepherd - that received the approval in 1847 of both the Bishop of Parma Giovanni Antonio Neuschel and the Duchess of Parma Maria Luigia; she rented an apartment for that union to use and then on 18 January 1856 made use of an old convent that the Augustinian nuns first ran. The role of that union was for its members to aid women in difficult times.
On 1 May 1857 she - alongside eight companions - established her own religious congregation. In 1859 she made her solemn vows into her own order thus making her both a professed religious and the Superior of the congregation once the Rule was drafted and approved; the order received formal approval in 1893. On 25 March 1876 the Bishop of Parma Domenico Villa granted formal approval to the establishment of the Institute of the Good Shepherd and her congregation as the Handmaids of the Immaculata. The Rule was confirmed on 28 January 1893 after receiving the approval of Villa's successor Andrea Miotti.
In 1892 her health declined and even for a brief period confined her to her bed. She died in 1893.
Beatification.
The beatification process commenced on 29 February 1940 in a diocesan process in the Diocese of Parma - the beginning of the process granted her the posthumous title of Servant of God - and saw the accumulation of her writings and a thorough investigation of her life and her work. The process concluded on 5 April 1943 in Parma thus concluding the first process. The decree on her writings - to evaluate if her writings adhered to Church teachings but also to further investigate her life - was approved on 3 December 1944.
This process took place despite the fact that the Congregation of Rites - under Pope Pius XII - did not grant formal approval to the beatification cause until 11 January 1952. Following this a second process opened in Parma that spanned from 25 March 1953 until 10 March 1956; this process and the one prior were validated on 30 October 1959.
After an intensive investigation led in Rome she was proclaimed to be Venerable on 6 February 1978 after Pope Paul VI recognized the fact that she had lived a model Christian life of heroic virtue and exercised both the cardinal virtues and the theological virtues.
The miracle required for her beatification was investigated in the diocese of its origins in two separate processes: the first one spanned from 29 February 1940 and closed on 5 April 1943 - this occurred on a concurrent level to the first diocesan process. The second process on the healing was from 5 March 1953 until 10 March 1956 when the second diocesan process closed. It wasn't until several decades later on 19 June 2006 that the Congregation for the Causes of Saints ratified those two processes and began their own investigation in Rome.
On 27 March 2010 her beatification was granted approval after Pope Benedict XVI determined that the healing was indeed a legitimate miracle. Archbishop Angelo Amato - on the behalf of the pope - presided over the beatification on 3 October 2010 in the Parma Cathedral.
The current postulator assigned to the cause is Father Guglielmo Camera.


John Aucher

John Aucher D.D., (1619–1700) was an English clergyman and royalist supporter during the Commonwealth of Britain.
Biography.
Aucher was the son of Sir Anthony Aucher, knight, of Hautsbourne in Kent. He was nominated to a Canterbury scholarship in Corpus Christi, Cambridge, by Archbishop Laud in 1634, but after taking the degree of B.A. he removed to Peterhouse for a fellowship, where he commenced M.A. in 1641. He was ejected from his fellowship on account of his loyalty, and during the Commonwealth he wrote two treatises against the dominant party, one of which, however, was not printed till long afterwards. At the Restoration he was created D.D. by royal mandate, and further rewarded with a prebend in the church of Canterbury (1660). He also held the rectory of Allhallows in Lombard Street, London, for many years (1662–85). Dr Aucher died at Canterbury on 12 March 1700–1, and was buried in the cathedral.
Works.
His works are:
Cooper also attributes to him the following work, but the title page of the first edition gives the author as Henry Archer and subsequent editions in 1661 as John Archer:


Jacques Amyot

Jacques Amyot (; 30 October 15136 February 1593), French Renaissance writer and translator, was born of poor parents, at Melun.
Biography.
Amyot found his way to the University of Paris, where he supported himself by serving some of the richer students. He was nineteen when he became M.A. at Paris, and later he graduated doctor of civil law at Bourges. Through Jacques Colure (or Colin), abbot of St. Ambrose in Bourges, he obtained a tutorship in the family of a secretary of state. By the secretary he was recommended to Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry, and through her influence was made professor of Greek and Latin at Bourges. Here he translated the "Æthiopica" of Heliodorus (1547), for which he was rewarded by Francis I with the abbey of Bellozane.
He was thus enabled to go to Italy to study the Vatican text of Plutarch, on the translation of whose "Lives" (1559–1565) he had been some time engaged. On the way he turned aside on a mission to the Council of Trent. Returning home, he was appointed tutor to the sons of Henry II, by one of whom (Charles IX) he was afterwards made grand almoner (1561) and by the other (Henry III) was appointed, in spite of his plebeian origin, commander of the Order of the Holy Spirit.
Pius V promoted him to the bishopric of Auxerre in 1570, and here he continued to live in comparative quiet, repairing his cathedral and perfecting his translations, for the rest of his days, though troubled towards the close by the insubordination and revolts of his clergy. He was a devout and conscientious churchman, and had the courage to stand by his principles. It is said that he advised the chaplain of Henry III to refuse absolution to the king after the murder of the Guise princes. He was, nevertheless, suspected of approving the crime. His house was plundered, and he was compelled to leave Auxerre for some time. He died bequeathing, it is said, 1200 crowns to the hospital at Orléans for the twelve "deniers" he received there when "poor and naked" on his way to Paris.
He translated seven books of Diodorus Siculus (1554), the "Daphnis et Chloë" of Longus (1559) and the "Opera Moralia" of Plutarch (1572). His vigorous and idiomatic version of Plutarch, "Vies des hommes illustres", was translated into English by Sir Thomas North, and supplied Shakespeare with materials for his Roman plays. Montaigne said of him, "I give the palm to Jacques Amyot over all our French writers, not only for the simplicity and purity of his language in which he surpasses all others, nor for his constancy to so long an undertaking, nor for his profound learning ... but I am grateful to him especially for his wisdom in choosing so valuable a work."
It was indeed to Plutarch that Amyot devoted his attention. His other translations were subsidiary. The version of Diodorus he did not publish, although the manuscript had been discovered by him. Amyot took great pains to find and interpret correctly the best authorities, but the interest of his books today lies in the style. His translation reads like an original work. The personal method of Plutarch appealed to a generation addicted to memoirs and incapable of any general theory of history. Amyot's book, therefore, obtained an immense popularity, and exercised great influence over successive generations of French writers.


Guillaume Mahot

Guillaume Mahot (1630 – June 4, 1684) served as the Apostolic Vicar of Cochin (1680–1684).
Biography.
Guillaume Mahot was born in Argentan, France and was an ordained priest of the Société des Missions étrangères de Paris.
On January 29, 1680, Pope Innocent XI appointed him the Apostolic Vicar of Cochin and Titular Bishop of Bida. On October 25, 1682, he was consecrated bishop by Louis Laneau, Apostolic Vicar of Siam.


Valerio Lazzeri

Valerio Lazzeri (born 22 July 1963) is a Swiss Roman Catholic bishop.
He carried out his studies from 1982 to 1987 at the San Carlo diocesan seminary, which was then based in the Salesianum boarding school in Friborg, and at the University of Fribourg, where in 1987 he obtained a license in theology. He continued his studies at the Pontifical Lombard Seminary in Rome (1987-1989) and at the Pontifical Gregorian University (1987-1988). On 2 September 1989 he was ordained a priest by the bishop of Lugano Eugenio Corecco in the Lugano Cathedral. In 1991 he obtained his doctorate in theology with a specialization in spirituality at the Pontifical theological faculty Teresianum in Rome. From 1991 to 1993 he was vice-rector and teacher in the Papio College of Ascona. He then moved back to Rome, where from 1993 to 1999 he was Official of the Congregation for Catholic Education of the Roman Curia. In 1999 he became a professor of spiritual theology at the Faculty of Theology of Lugano and episcopal vicar of the diocese of Lugano for women religious. From 1999 to 2009 he was a parish collaborator in Locarno, where he dealt in particular with preaching, catechesis and Lectio divina. In 2009 he moved to Bose for a year, dedicating himself to study and research, and making a journey of spiritual deepening. Returning to Lugano, where he resumes the duties of episcopal vicar and teacher at the Faculty of Theology, in 2010 he becomes canon of the chapter of the Cathedral of San Lorenzo. He was also appointed spiritual director in the San Carlo diocesan seminary and assistant to the Ordo Virginum.
Ordained to the priesthood on 2 September 1989, Lazzeri was named bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lugano, Switzerland on 4 November 2013.


Engilbert I of Saint Gall

Engilbert was for a short time (840/841) Abbot of Saint Gall. His dates of birth and death are unknown. Possibly, he died on a 22 January of an unknown year. An entry in the necrology of Saint Gall cannot definitely be assigned to this Engilbert.
Term of office.
Like his predecessor Bernwig, Engilbert supposedly decided on the wrong party to support in the battle of succession after Louis the Pious' death, taking Lothair's side. Lothair advanced but was finally defeated by his brother, Louis the German, at Fontenoy, Engilbert was removed from office in 841 by Louis, who had previously appointed him.


Roman Sitko

Roman Sitko (30 March 1880 – 12 October 1942) was a Polish Catholic priest. In 1941 he was arrested by the Nazis and then killed at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. He is considered a martyr and was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 13 June 1999.
Life.
Roman Sitko was born on 30 March 1880 in Czarna Sędziszowska, Poland. In 1900 he started his studies for the priesthood and was ordained in Tarnów in 1904. Between 1907 and 1921 he worked as a priest in Mielec.
Sitko was arrested on 22 May 1941 by the Nazis. He was imprisoned for months before being sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau in August 1942.
Veneration.
After his death Sitko was recognized as one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 13 June 1999. His group memorial day (for the 108 Polish Martyrs) is celebrated on 12 June.
In 2014 a documentary was shot by a Polish screenplay writer, director and film producer Dawid Szpara.


Nihad Awad

Nihad Awad (Arabic: نهاد عوض) is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
Early life.
Nihad Awad was born in Amman New Camp, a Palestinian refugee camp in Amman, Jordan. He studied at Second Amman Preparatory School for Boys, located at the camp and belongs to UNRWA, and at Salaheddine High School in Achrafieh in Jordan. He moved to Italy and later to the United States to pursue his university studies.
Career.
After studying civil engineering at the University of Minnesota in the 1990s, he worked at the University of Minnesota Medical Center. After the Gulf War, he was Public Relations Director for the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP).
In June 1994, IAP President Omar Ahmad and others founded the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), and Awad was hired as the Executive Director. In a March 1994 speech at Barry University, future CAIR Executive Director Awad said in response to an audience question about the various humanitarian efforts in the Palestinian Occupied Territories, "I am in support of the Hamas movement more than the PLO... there are some [Hamas] radicals, we are not interested in those people." At the time Awad expressed support for Hamas, the group had not conducted suicide bombings and was not designated a terrorist organization by the US. Awad has said he no longer supports the group and has condemned suicide bombings.
A few days after the September 11 attacks in 2001, Awad was one of a select group American Muslim leaders invited by the White House to join President Bush in a press conference condemning the attacks and acts of anti-Muslim intolerance that followed.
Controversies.
Fundraising Request to Muammar Gaddafi.
In April 2011, Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va. cited a 2009 letter sent from Awad, to Muammar Gaddafi asking Gaddafi for funding for a project called the Muslim Peace Foundation at a U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations sub-committee hearing with Robert Mueller. The letter also said, in part, "I am pleased to send to Your Excellency in my name most solemn assurances of thanks and appreciation for the efforts you exert in the service of Islam, Muslims and all mankind through your initiative to teach Islam, spread the culture of Islam, and solve disputes, for which you are known internationally."


Dionysius of Corinth

Saint Dionysius was the bishop of Corinth in about the year 171. His feast day is commemorated on April 8.
Date.
The date is established by the fact that he wrote to Pope St Soter. Eusebius in his "Chronicle" placed his "floruit" in the eleventh year of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius (171). When Hegesippus was at Corinth in the time of Pope Anicetus, Primus was bishop (about 150-5), while Bacchylus was Bishop of Corinth at the time of the Paschal controversy (about 190-8). Dionysius is only known to us through Eusebius. Eusebius knew a collection of seven of the "Catholic Letters to the Churches" of Dionysius, together with a letter to him from Pinytus, Bishop of Knossus, and a private letter of spiritual advice to a lady named Chrysophora.
Eusebius mentions (1) a letter to the Lacedaemonians, teaching orthodoxy, and enjoining peace and union. (2) Another letter was to the Athenians, stirring up their faith exhorting them to live according to the Gospel, since they were not far from apostasy. Dionysius spoke of the recent martyrdom of their bishop, Publius (in the persecution of Marcus Aurelius), and says that Dionysius the Areopagite was the first Bishop of Athens. (3) To the Nicomedians he wrote against Marcionism. (4) Writing to Gortyna and the other dioceses of Crete, he praised their bishop, Philip, for efforts on behalf of the church then warned him of the distortions of heretics. (5) To the Church of Amastris in Pontus he wrote at the instance of Bacchylides and Elpistus (otherwise unknown), mentioning the bishop's name as Palmas; he wrote in this letter of marriage and celibacy, and recommended the charitable treatment of those who had fallen away into sin or heresy. (6) In a letter to Pinytus, bishop of Knossus, he recommended that he should not lay the yoke of celibacy too heavily on his brethren, but consider the weakness most of them have. Pinytus replied, after polite words, that he hoped Dionysius would send strong meat next time so his people might not grow up on the milk of babes.
But the most important letter is the seventh one, addressed to the Romans, and the only one from which extracts have been preserved. Pope Soter had sent alms and a letter to the Corinthians, and in response Dionysius wrote:
Again:
Again:
 Needless to say that those quotations do not constitute in any way "proofs" in favour of the much later papal claims and innovations. On the contrary, we see how, in the second excerpt, the Church of Corinth is described as equally doubly apostolic (by Sts Peter and Paul) as the Roman See ("they both came to our Corinth and planted us, and taught alike"). We see though the honor with which the sole Apostolic See of the West (See of the capital of the Empire) was already treated (probably as a memorial reverence to Peter and Paul), honor that would later be canonically stated in the first Ecumenical Council of Nice (325), and properly restated in Canon 28 of Chalcedon. The witness to the martyrdom of Sts. Peter and Paul, "kata ton auton kairon", is of importance, and so is the mention of the "Epistle of Clement" and the public reading of it. The letter of the pope was written "as a father to his children". Dionysius's own letters were evidently much prized, for in the last extract from this letter he writes that he wrote them by request, and that they have been falsified "by the apostles of the devil". "Small wonder then", he observes, "if some have dared to tamper even with the word of the Lord himself, when they have conspired to mutilate my own humble efforts."


Marie-Victoire Baudry

Marie-Victoire Baudry (12 December 1782 – 10 November 1846), named Mother de la Croix, was Superior General of the Congregation of Notre Dame.
Baudry was born on 12 December 1782 in the town of Pointe-aux-Trembles (now part of Montreal), the daughter of Toussaint Baudry and Élisabeth Truteau. Baudry went to a convent school in the town and later entered the noviciate of the Congregation of Notre Dame which had taught her, at Montreal in 1799. She was the first native of the colony to enter the congregation. A year later, she took her vows and assumed her religious name, after which she began a teaching career at a mission on the Island of Montreal. She later moved to Lower Town mission at Quebec.
Because of circumstances within her congregation, she left teaching and became involved in the internal administration of the institute. She became Superior General in 1822 for a six-year term and was succeeded by Mother Marie-Catherine Huot. She was elected councillor at that time and continued in that post until her death.
Mother de la Croix went on to set up new missions and strongly influenced the curriculum in the schools of the congregation. She died at the Motherhouse of the congregation in Montreal in 1846.


Medardo Luis Luzardo Romero

Medardo Luis Luzardo Romero (17 April 1934 – 27 November 2018) was a Venezuelan Roman Catholic archbishop.
Biography.
Lizardo Romero was born in Venezuela and was ordained to the priesthood in 1960. Luzardo Romero served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Carlos de Venezuela from 1972 t0 1979. He then served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ciudad Guayana from 1979 to 1986. From 1986 to 2011, Luzardo Romero served as archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ciudad Bolívar.


John Britton (martyr)

John Britton (Bretton) (died 1 April 1598) was an English Catholic martyr from Barnsley, Yorkshire, who was executed during the reign of Elizabeth I. He was beatified in 1987.
Biography.
A member of the old, established Breton family, Britton was a devout Catholic. Known as a zealous Catholic, he was subjected to continual vexations and persecutions, which caused him to absent himself from his wife and family for safety. As an old man, he was accused of making traitorous speeches against the queen and condemned to death. He refused to renounce his faith, and was executed at York on 1 April 1598. He was probably the father of Matthew Britton, prefect and professor at Douai in 1599.


William Haighton Chappel

William Haighton Chappel (22 May 1860, Camborne – 11 July 1922, Coventry) was an Anglican priest and educator in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Chappel was the eldest son of Rev. William Pester Chappel, Rector of Camborne and Canon of Truro Cathedral. He was educated at Marlborough College and Worcester College, Oxford, matriculating on 16 October 1879 and being awarded a scholarship. Graduating B.A. in classics in 1883 (M.A. 1887), Chappel graduated from Theological College in 1884, and was ordained in 1888.
He was a master at Marlborough from 1884 to 1896, and Headmaster of the King's School, Worcester from 1896 to 1919.
Chappel was Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Worcester 1902–1905, and to the Bishop of Birmingham 1905–1909, and became a Canon of Worcester Cathedral in 1907. When Huyshe Yeatman-Biggs, Bishop of Worcester, was translated to become the first bishop of the newly revived see of Coventry in 1918, he persuaded Chappel to accompany him as the first Sub-Dean. Chappel was appointed Sub-Dean and Vicar of Coventry Cathedral in 1918, and in 1919 Rural Dean of Coventry and Vicar of Stivichall in plurality.
On 19 April 1892, Chappel married Gertrude Mary Carnsew, daughter of the late Rev. Thomas Stone Carnsew, at Exeter Cathedral.


Manuel Eguiguren Galarraga

Manuel Eguiguren Galarraga (January 1, 1930 – July 15, 2012) was the Roman Catholic titular bishop of Salapia and auxiliary bishop of the Vicariate Apostolic of El Beni or Beni, Bolivia.
Ordained to the priesthood in 1954, Eguiguren Galarraga was named bishop in 1981 and retired in 2007.


Jaime de Casanova

Jaime de Casanova (died 1504) (called Cardinal Casanova) was a Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal.
Biography.
Jaime de Casanova was born in Xàtiva, ca. 1435.
Early in his career, Casanova came under the protection of Cardinal Roderic Llançol i de Borja (the future Pope Alexander VI). In Rome, he became "abbreviatore di parco minore"; then a papal notary; and then a protonotary apostolic. In 1492, he was a witness at the dissolution of the marriage of Lucrezia Borgia and Gaspare Aversa, and in 1493, was a witness at her marriage to Giovanni Sforza. In 1497, he became an "officiali audientie contradictarum", and in 1498 a papal chamberlain.
Pope Alexander VI made him a cardinal priest in the consistory of May 31, 1503. He received the titular church of Santo Stefano Rotondo on June 12, 1503.
In August 1503, he was present at the Papal Mass performed for the dying pope. The pope died on August 18, 1503, and the next day his son Cesare Borgia sent Michelotto Corella and a band of thugs to the Papal Apartments, where they pulled a knife on Cardinal Casanova and demanded he give them all the money in the apartments. Terrified, Cardinal Casanova handed over the keys.
He participated in the papal conclave of September 1503, though his participation was limited by bad health. He participated in the consecration of Pope Pius III, but not his coronation. He then participated in the papal conclave of October 1503 that elected Pope Julius II. He was able to attend the new pope's coronation, but not his first consistory and meeting of the College of Cardinals. His health recovered a little in spring 1504.
He died in Rome on June 4, 1504. He is buried in Santa Maria del Popolo.


Yaakov Bleich

Yaakov Dov Bleich (born October 19, 1964) is an American-born rabbi. He is the chief rabbi of Kyiv and Ukraine. and serves as vice-president of the World Jewish Congress since 2009.
Biography.
Rabbi Bleich graduated from Telshe Yeshiva High School in Chicago, Illinois where he began his rabbinical studies. From 1984 to 1986, he studied at the Karlin Stolin Rabbinical Institute in Jerusalem.
In 1989 Rabbi Bleich moved to Kyiv, Ukraine and became the Chief Rabbi of Ukraine and Rabbi of the Main synagogue in Kyiv. He has since opened many institutions, including boys schools, girls schools, Cheders, Bais Yaakov, the first Jewish Summer Camp in Ukraine, a yeshiva, a kollel, boys and girls orphanages, student centers, the lady's program, men programs, children programs, an old age home, a synagogue with Mikvah, kosher hotel and restaurants, Jewish community centers, and many more programs around Kyiv and Ukraine.
Rabbi Bleich today lives in Kyiv and has one of the biggest and growing Jewish communities in Ukraine. In 2018, Kyiv weekly magazine "Focus" named Rabbi Bleich the most powerful Jewish man in the country.


Milo Crispin

Milo Crispin (died 1149?) was cantor of the Benedictine Abbey of Bec. He wrote the lives of five of its abbots: Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury, Gulielmus de Bellomonte, Boso, Theobaldus, and Letardus.
Biography and works.
His life of Lanfranc is printed in the "Acta Sanctorum" of the Bollandists (May 28). The other four (those of Theobaldus and Letardus being mere summaries) are included in the "Patrologia Latina" (Vol. CL).
Milo must have been an old man when he wrote them, for in the last chapter of his life of Lanfranc he relates something which he himself heard St. Anselm say. As St. Anselm died in 1109, and Letardus did not die till 1149, Milo Crispin shows here incidentally that his own religious life had lasted more than forty years.
He came of the noble race of Crispin descended from the Neustrian, Gislebert, who first received the name Crispin because of his erect curly hair. All Gislebert's sons distinguished themselves, and the family proved generous benefactors to the Abbey of Bec. Two of his descendants subsequently became monks there--Gilbert, afterwards Abbot of Westminster, who wrote the life of St. Herluin, founder and first Abbot of Bec, and his brother Milo. No details of the latter's career have been preserved, nor is it known when he died.


Michael Hutchison (priest)

Michael Balfour Hutchison (18 July 1844 – 1921) was Dean of Glasgow and Galloway from 1903 to 1920.
He was born on 18 July 1844, educated at the Glasgow High School, the University of Glasgow, Worcester College, Oxford and Lincoln College, Oxford, ordained deacon in 1868, and priest in 1869, and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1905. After curacies in Norwich and Paisley, he was curate in charge at St Ninian, Glasgow, then its incumbent until 1920. He died in 1921.
In 1888 he published "Hymnos Quosdam Hodiernos in ordine Temporum Ecclesiasticorum Dispositos Vetus ad Exemplar Reddidit M.B. Hutchison", a volume of translations of hymns into Latin verse.


The Planet Is Alive...Let It Live!

The Planet Is Alive...Let it Live! is a 1984 studio album by Sarah Vaughan, of the poetry of Pope John Paul II translated by Gene Lees.
In 1995 the album was reissued on CD as "The Mystery of Man".
Reception.
The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album one and a half stars and said that "Unfortunately, despite the best efforts of everyone involved, the results often sound rather ponderous...The best pieces are the two original ones by Lees ("The Mystery of Man" and "Let It Live") but otherwise this is a difficult set to sit through, not only from the jazz standpoint (the impressive all-stars who are in the orchestra are largely wasted) but musically; everything is too serious and a bit pompous. Skip".


Raphael Evers

Raphael Evers (born May 8, 1954) is an Orthodox rabbi and Dayan (rabbinic judge), the Chief Rabbi of Düsseldorf.
Family.
Evers was born in Amsterdam, and grew up in Amsterdam-West. He is the son of Dutch Jewish parents, Hans Evers and Bloeme Evers-Emden (1926-2016). His mother was deported from Westerbork to Auschwitz in September 1944 on the same train as Anne Frank, whom she had known in Amsterdam. Evers-Emden survived the war, and later published four books detailing her research on Dutch Jewish children hidden during the war.
Rabbinic Ordinations (Semikhah).
Evers received Semkihah for Dayanut from the following Rabbi's: Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Dayan Chanoch Ehrentreu, Rabbi Meir Just, Rabbi Zalman Nechemia Goldberg, Rabbi Moshe Halberstam and Rabbi Aryeh Ralbag.
In addition, Evers received regular Semikhot from a variety of Rabbi's from different streams within Orthodox Judaism.
Evers received Rabbinic ordination from:
Evers is one of the very few post-Holocaust recipients of the highest Dutch Semikhah, the so called Moreh degree.
Rabbinate.
In addition to his position of Chief Rabbi of Dusseldorf, he also serves as a Dayan in the Beth Din of the (Germany) and the European Beth Din.
Since 1990 and until his departure in 2016 to Germany, Evers served as the rabbi of the "Nederlands Israëlitisch Kerkgenootschap" (Dutch Israelite Religious Community). He also served 26 years as the dean of the "Nederlands Israëlitisch Seminarium" (Dutch Israelite Seminary), where Dutch rabbis and Jewish teachers are trained. Among other positions, he served as the Rabbi of Rotterdam from 1992 until 2010 and as the Rabbi of the Kehillas Ja'akow synagogue in Amsterdam.
Evers finished two Master degrees in Clinical Psychology and Conflictuology (1981) and in Tax Law (1985). He is known for his encyclopedic knowledge on almost all facets of Judaism.
Additional functions and activities.
Evers is an honorary member of the Conference of European Rabbis (CER).
During his position at the NIK, Evers appeared frequently in Dutch and international press (Radio, Newspapers and TV) to advocate and explain about Judaism, Israel and issues related to the Jewish community.
As a result of his work for promoting cultural understanding between the Dutch Jewish and the Muslim Moroccan community in the Netherlands, he was awarded a place in the Golden Book of Moroccan Judaism and later received an official award of Gratitude from King Mohammad VI of Morocco.
Evers served in a large number of voluntary board positions throughout his career, including the boards of Jewish youth organizations, schools, museums and general professional NGO's. He also participated in many national and international inter-faith panels and initiatives like the Forum A to Z, encouraging the Dutch government to fight low literacy.
Antisemitism.
After the murder of Theo van Gogh on November 2, 2004, Evers presented, alongside representatives of Christian and Muslim communities, a "Samenlevingscontract" (Cohabitation Agreement) to the President of the Dutch House of Representatives.He has also spoken out on the increasing anti-Semitism displayed by Dutch Muslim residents of Moroccan and Turkish descent, allowing himself and his mother to be filmed on the subject by French television. In 2010, his son, Bentzion Evers, told the press that he is planning to move to Israel because of anti-Semitism, and that his father also plans to leave Holland after his retirement. Five of Evers' children have already left the country.
Publications.
Evers published 8 Hebrew-language volumes of his Responsa "Weshav Werafa" documenting Halakhic questions he was asked to rule on as Posek and Dayan
He also published more than 30 books in Dutch on a variety of Jewish topics, among others:
"All his published books can be looked up at the Royal Library of the Netherlands"
He also writes articles on a regular basis for newspapers and magazines, as well as study material used in Dutch schools. He is a frequent spokesman for the Jewish point of view on radio and television, and during debates and lectures.


Vincent Mojwok Nyiker

Vincent Mojwok Nyiker (25 January 1933 – 5 January 2018) was a Roman Catholic bishop.
Mojwok Nyiker was born in the Sudan and was ordained to the priesthood in 1962. He served as the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Malakal, South Sudan from 1979 to 2009.


Apostolic Nunciature to Rwanda

The Apostolic Nunciature to Rwanda provides for the representation of the Holy See to the Government of Rwanda.
After representing its interests through a series of delegations, the Holy See established its Nunciature to Rwanda on 6 June 1964.


Valerius of Saragossa

Saint Valerius of Saragossa (; ) (d. 315 AD) is the patron saint of Saragossa. He was bishop of this city from 290 until his death. He assisted at the Council of Elvira. His feast day is January 29.
History.
Valerian was bishop of Caesaraugusta (Saragossa) from 290 until 315.
There are few records of Valerius but tradition holds that he had a speech impediment, and that the deacon, Vincent of Saragossa, acted as his spokesman.
Both Valerius and Vincent suffered imprisonment under Diocletian. Vincent was martyred at Valencia. Valerius was exiled for a time to a place called Enet, near Barbastro, but is known to have been present at the Council Elvira, (ca.306). He died in Saragossa in 315.
An idealised portrait of this Bishop is found in the magnificent Pantaleão, Zaragoza.
Veneration.
A chapel dedicated to him can be found at La Seo Cathedral. It includes a baroque entryway of gilded wood from the seventeenth century with scenes of the saints Valerius, Vincent, and Lawrence.


Ezekiel Dahunsi

Ezekiel Bolarinde Dahunsi is an Anglican bishop in Nigeria: a former archdeacon, he was Bishop of Idoani until 2020 when he retired.
He was elected as Bishop of Idoani on 29 October 2009 at the Episcopal synod of the Church of Nigeria Anglican Communion held at the Basilica of Grace Apo in Gudu district of the Anglican Diocese of Abuja.


Jonathan Thulin

Jonathan Andreas Thulin (born May 7, 1988), also known as Andreas Moss since his switch to pop music, is a Dove Award Nominated, Swedish recording artist and songwriter. He is best known for his singles "Dead Come to Life", featuring Australian artist Charmaine, "Architecture" and "Compass." He has been applauded for his creative approach to music, through cinematic and theatrical recordings and music videos. His recently released music videos for "Bombs Away", featuring artist Rachael Lampa and "Dead Come to Life", were a success among critics and audiences alike. He was a member of the chart topping band Press Play from 2010 – 2013. His solo albums "The Anatomy of a Heartflow" and "The White Room" were released on Dream Records, EMI CMG distribution. His new album "Science Fiction" was released in March, 2015 which features cameos from Royal Tailor, Group 1 Crew, Rapture Ruckus, Derek Minor, Kevin Max, Shine Bright Baby and Moriah Peters. Thulin recently featured on the top 10 single "Volcano" with New Zealand band Rapture Ruckus. In 2016, he signed a deal with Curb Records, moving into mainstream pop music. His single “Body Talk” feat. Mia More and Doeman was released on March 22nd, 2019, solidifying his move into electro-pop music.
History.
Thulin was born in Kalmar, Sweden. His parents, Morgan and Helene Thulin, are both Swedish. He is the youngest of four children, with older brothers David and Samuel, and sister Jeanette. His parents were traveling evangelists all over Scandinavia. Thulin began singing at the age of one and recorded his first album with his family at age six.
Thulin and his family traveled full-time across America where they sang in over five hundred churches and performed with Carman and The Gaither Vocal Band. After releasing six albums with his family, Thulin began his solo career at sixteen, releasing his first album "Immovable", which was a local success in his home town at the time in Vero Beach, FL. He attended the Indian River Charter High School, school for the Visual and Performing Arts, where he graduated a year early. He went on to release another album "The Epiphany Guide" in 2008.
In January, 2010, Thulin and his wife Anna moved to Los Angeles and began attending The Dream Center. He subsequently moved to Lake Forest and began attending a Mission Viejo church, Mount of Olives, where he sang on the worship/praise team. He began touring with Press Play in November, 2010, and went on to co-write and record their successful albums "World Anthem" and "#LITO". He got signed as a solo artist to Dream Records in 2011. In April, 2011, Thulin, along with Press Play, went on tour with Rachael Lampa, Australian artist Charmaine and Ryan Stevenson.
In July 2011, Thulin travelled to Moscow, Idaho, to record his first music video "Babylon" with Neumann Films. After it released, the video created a buzz because of its cinematic approach, an approach which is very unusual in Christian music.
After releasing his first solo album "The Anatomy of a Heartflow" on Dream Records in late 2011, Thulin began touring with Charmaine on "The Love/War Tour."
In February, 2012 Thulin began work on his second effort "The White Room", which featured Rachael Lampa, Charmaine and the folk band Elden. The album released on Oct 19, 2012, to major critical success.
On January 15, 2013, Thulin teamed up with Neumann Films again and released his music video for "Bombs Away", which featured and was co-written by Rachael Lampa. The YouTube video went viral and also received a tremendous amount of support from fans and critics alike.
Late summer 2013, after finishing a two-month tour in Sweden, Thulin's single "Dead Come to Life (featuring Charmaine)", became a No. 1 CHR/Hot AC radio hit. It stayed at No. 1 for 3 weeks and was also a huge hit on Air1 Radio.
In 2014, Thulin toured the U.S doing living room shows and festivals. He spent a good amount of time in Australia and New Zealand touring. Thulin finished the Air 1 Radio Positive Hits Tour with Jamie Grace, Royal Tailor, Rapture Ruckus, Moriah Peters and OBB in September 2014.
In 2015, Thulin started off his year Touring in New Zealand and Australia.
Personal life.
Thulin attended North Central University for a year in 2005 before he dropped out to pursue a music career full-time. He is married and lives in Nashville, Tennessee.


Cyril Barnes

 Cyril Arthur Barnes (1926-2000) was an eminent Anglican priest in the second half of the 20th century.
He was born on 10 January 1926, educated at Penistone Grammar School and Edinburgh Theological College and ordained after National Service with the King's Own Scottish Borderers in 1950. He was Curate at St John's, Aberdeen and was then Rector of St John's, Forres until 1955. He was Priest in Charge at St John the Evangelist, Wentbridge and then Vicar of St Bartholomew's, Ripponden with St John's, Rishworth until 1967. After this he was Rector of Christ Church, Huntly with St Marnan's, Aberchirder and Holy Trinity, Keith. He was Dean of Moray, Ross and Caithness from 1980 until 1983. He died on 21 January 2000.


Michael Akinyemi

Michael Akinyemi (born 17 October 1947) is an Anglican bishop in Nigeria: he was the pioneer Bishop of Igbomina, one of seven in the Anglican Province of Kwara, itself one of 14 within the Church of Nigeria. Akinyemi was also Archbishop of the Anglican Province of Kwara until his retirement in 2017.


James Richard Ham

James Richard Ham (July 11, 1921 – December 20, 2002) was a Roman Catholic Titular Bishop of "Putia in Numidia" and Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis in Minnesota.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Ham was ordered a priest for the Maryknoll order on June 12, 1948. On November 28, 1967, he was appointed auxiliary bishop and served as a missionary in Guatemala from 1968 until 1979. From October 7, 1980 until his retirement on October 30, 1990, Bishop Ham served as auxiliary bishop of the Saint Paul and Minneapolis Archdiocese.


Randall Sullivan

Randall Sullivan is an American author and journalist who has also worked as a screenwriter, film and television producer and on-camera television personality.
Life.
Early life and education.
Sullivan was born in Los Angeles and grew up in North Bend, Oregon. As a teenager, his family moved to Portland, Oregon, where he attended Sunset High School. "In high school, he was a football jock who was always in trouble." After high school, Sullivan enrolled at the University of Oregon and went on to graduate with a bachelor's degree in English (with honors) in 1974. In 1976 he accepted a two-year writing fellowship at Columbia University; he left with a master's degree a few years later. While he was at Columbia he took courses at the Columbia School of Journalism. After graduating from Columbia University, Sullivan took his first journalist position at the New York Daily News "for ten months." He later moved to Los Angeles to further his journalism career at the "Herald Examiner" and "Rolling Stone".
Writing career.
Randall Sullivan has “been making a living by writing since 1979." Sullivan has written for a number of nationally recognized publications, including Esquire; The Washington Post; The Guardian; Rolling Stone; and Wired. He "has written three books nominated for the Pulitzer Prize... [and] won a number of national awards."
The Billionaire Boys Club and "The" "Price of Experience".
In 1986, Sullivan wrote an article for "Esquire" detailing the corruption and criminal activities of the Billionaire Boys Club; the article “exposed the whole fascinating mess and briefly made Sullivan the brightest light in town [Los Angeles].” Sullivan was paid $250,000 to write a book based on the article; and, according to Jeff Baker of "The Oregonian", this was “at that time... the highest advance ever paid to a first-time author.” The rights to the "Esquire" article were also used as a basis for the NBC television mini-series, "Billionaire Boys Club". Although, the mini-series was nominated for two Golden Globe awards and four Emmys, it was considered "factually inaccurate" and did not stay true to the source material.
In 1996 Sullivan published "The Price of Experience: Money, Power, Image, and Murder in Los Angeles", his long-awaited book about the Billionaire Boys Club. He spent ten years researching and writing the book; a book that Dick Adler of the "Los Angeles Times" described as “monumental." Sullivan's research included “hundreds of sources… eight former BBC members,” and personal jail-written letters from BBC ringleader Joe Hunt. The "Price of Experience" received positive reviews from the "Los Angeles Times"; "The New Yorker"; and "The Boston Globe", among others. However, the release of the book was not without controversy; Sullivan received an anonymous death threat before a scheduled public book reading (which was subsequently cancelled); it is speculated that the threat could have came from someone affiliated with former members of the BBC.
"LAbyrinth".
In 2002, Sullivan published "LAbyrinth: A Detective Investigates the Murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G., the Implication of Death Row Records' Suge Knight, and the Origins of the Los Angeles Police Scandal." The book was met with controversy and acclaim, for it connected (former) Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight and The Los Angeles Police Department with the deaths of prominent rap artists Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace (aka Biggie). The book was based largely on Sullivan's interviews with retired LAPD detective Russell Poole, who was “convinced that Death Row Records impresario Suge Knight orchestrated the killing of both” and that the LAPD helped cover up Suge Knight's association with the murders. Sullivan's book included “130 key players, a detailed timeline of events, and reference to 224 supporting documents,” making it one of the first detailed investigations of the murders available at the time of publishing. The book helped raise “publicity” surrounding the unsolved murders. Eric Boehlert, a former senior writer at Salon, argued that too much evidence was based on Poole's oral testimony, and that Sullivan's timeline of the events didn't matchup entirely. "Poole left the LAPD in 1999 after growing disagreements with the police force on numerous homicides, including the B.I.G. murder," but he continued to investigate the murders as a private detective. The FBI opened an investigation into the murder of Biggie in March 2003, in part spurred on by Poole's theory, but the FBI closed the investigation eighteen months later. In 2005, a key informant in the investigation "admitted hearsay... casting doubt" on the LAPDs involvement in covering up the murders. Poole was preparing to re-open the investigation with the LAPD in 2015, but he died suddenly from a heart attack. In 2016 it was announced that a film based on the book was in production. " City of Lies", starring Jonny Depp and Forest Whitaker, was scheduled to be released in September 2018 but was later pushed back. Sullivan recently hinted in an interview that he is working on a follow up book to re-examine the murders twenty years later.
"The Miracle Detective".
In April 2004, Sullivan published"The Miracle Detective", his book about his investigation into the apparition of 'Our Lady of Medjugorje' which is claimed to have appeared before six children in Medjugorgje, Bosnia, in 1981. His book was not only an investigation into the history of the apparition—and how other villagers and visitors since, have had similar visions at Medjugorgje—but also about his personal experience there, where he claims he experienced a miracle. The book has been called a "conversion narrative" by some, and met with skeptical criticism by others, however, it has also received positive reviews, especially from the Christian community where it remains a top seller (currently ranked in the top 150 books on Amazon for the category Mariology).
"Untouchable".
Published in November 2012, was Sullivan's book on the life and death of pop star Michael Jackson: "." The book was met with some controversy, mainly because Sullivan argued that Jackson was not a "child molester" and rather, that he was "pre-sexual" having never engaged in sexual intercourse at all. The book also detailed much of Jackson's drug abuse in his later years, money trouble, and "spending habits"—which upset many of Jackson's diehard fans. Some fans started an online campaign against the book's sale on Amazon. However, as Guardian columnist Deborah Orr points out: many of Jackson's more fanatic followers tend to criticize "any" negative press about Jackson's life, regardless of evidence or argument. Others called into question Sullivan's source material, and though Sullivan "does an adequate job of chronicling Jackson’s over-the-top fame," he relies on too few verifiable sources to draw his conclusions. Nonetheless, Jackson's long time attorney, Tom Mesereau, who was also one of Sullivan's main sources for his research on Jackson, came to Sullivan's defense and praised the book for its insight and accuracy. Still others praised the book; for example, there was "a glowing recommendation from broadcaster and journalist Danny Baker" who called it the "best" book about Jackson; and The New Yorker praised the book's in-depth research, viz., for bringing to light the "financial profligacy and wrongheadedness" of Jackson's life and business choices.
Film/Television.
Sullivan is a long time member of the Writers Guild of America. He was co-writer on the made-for-TV movie, "A Friend to Die For" (based on Sullivan's article, "Death of a Cheerleader"). As a producer, he co-produced the documentary "Reckless Indifference", and he was an executive producer on the Oprah Winfrey Network mini-series, "Miracle Detectives". Sullivan also appears on the History Channel reality-TV show, "The Curse of Oak Island". He is currently executive producing the upcoming film, "City of Lies" starring Johnny Depp and Forest Whitaker.
Personal life.
Sullivan lives in Portland, Oregon. For most of his life Sullivan identified as an atheist, but in 1995 he underwent a spiritual conversion to Catholicism while he was in Medjugorje reporting on the Bosnian War. This experience was influential to his research, writing, and co-hosting of the Oprah Winfrey Network show, "Miracle Detectives". Sullivan is married to fashion model turned social activist Delores Sullivan (formerly Delores Teller) whom he met while writing a profile of her for "Rolling" "Stone" magazine.


William A. Marra

William A. Marra (February 20, 1928 – December 12, 1998) was a third-party Right to Life Party candidate for President of the United States in the 1988 presidential election; his running mate was Joan Andrews. They received 20,504 votes. Marra had also been a candidate in the Republican and Democratic parties' United States presidential primary in New Hampshire. In the former he received six write-in votes and in the latter received 142 votes.
Biography.
William A. Marra was born in Jersey City, New Jersey on February 20, 1928 of Italian immigrant parents. He grew up in Jersey City, but attended the Jesuit Regis High School in New York City.
He was a graduate of the University of Detroit Mercy School of Engineering and Fordham University, serving as a professor of philosophy at the latter for nearly four decades. Marra was an active lecturer, opposing topics such as abortion, atheism and sex education.
For 17 years, Marra hosted a radio program called "Where Catholics Meet" on 710 WOR-AM in New York City. On the show, he addressed issues facing orthodox Catholics in the post-Vatican II world. He often had guests. In the early 1990s, Marra hosted a TV program on the EWTN Global Catholic Network called "The Roman Forum." This program ran for two seasons and addressed many of the same issues as "Where Catholics Meet", but involved fewer guest hosts.
Marra founded Catholic Media Apostolate, an organization dedicated to the propagation of the Roman Catholic faith through the media. He was also heavily involved in Keep the Faith, an organization similar to CMA.
In 2003 his daughter Lorretta Marra Malvasi was convicted of assisting James Charles Kopp subsequent to Kopp's killing of Barnett Slepian, a physician who legally performed abortions in New York State.


Orozimbo Fuenzalida

Orozimbo Fuenzalida y Fuenzalida (May 22, 1925 – March 27, 2013) was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Bernardo, Chile.
Ordained to the priesthood in 1951, Fuenzalida y Fuenzalida was named bishop in 1968 and retired in 2003.
He was Prelate of Calama and Titular Bishop of Burca from 1968 until 1970, Bishop of Santa María de Los Ángeles from 1970 until 1987, and Bishop of San Bernardo from 1987 until 2003.


Julius Makoni

Julius Makoni was an Anglican bishop in Zimbabwe during the 21st-century: he was Bishop of Manicaland from 2009 to 2015.


Faisal Gill

Faisal Mahmood Gill () was the interim chairman of the Vermont Democratic Party for several months in 2017. He is a Pakistani-born lawyer, administrator, government advisor, and one-time Democratic candidate for the Vermont State Senate in Chittenden County. In July 2014, it was revealed by Glenn Greenwald through the Edward Snowden leaks that Gill was one of five prominent Muslim United States citizens that were under NSA surveillance.
Biography.
In 2012, Gill relocated to Vermont; he now lives in Winooksi, and practices law. In 2016, he was a candidate in the Democratic Primary for one of six seats in the multi-member Chittenden Senate District of Vermont. On March 4, 2017, Gill was elected as interim chairman of the Vermont Democratic Party, becoming the first-ever Muslim to lead a state party. He was not a candidate for a full term in November.
Homeland Security Career and Targeting.
In 2003, Gill served as a spokesman for the American Muslim Council, an organization founded by Abdurahman Alamoudi to encourage Muslim political participation. al-Alamoudi was sentenced to 23 years in federal prison for bringing over one million dollars in cash provided by the Libyan government into the U.S.
After being appointed by George W. Bush as a policy director for the Department of Homeland Security, Gill was investigated by officials in connection to al-Amoudi but was ultimately cleared by a polygraph test and allowed to resume work. However, pundit Frank Gaffney led a public campaign to discredit Gill, highlighting the brief inquiry into Gill's AMC connections and soliciting letters from Congressional Republicans calling for an investigation. In a 2004 statement defending Gill, a DHS spokesman said: "DHS is confident that our security clearance process is effective. Mr. Gill was thoroughly vetted at several levels. Mr. Gill did not withhold information on government forms required to initiate government security clearance processing and has been cooperative throughout the process." Faisal Gill left the Department of Homeland Security in January, 2005.
In 2014, NSA documents leaked by Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA had been spying on Gill and several other prominent Muslim-Americans beginning in 2006.
Asked whether he believes he would have been monitored by the NSA if he were not Muslim, Gill is blunt. "Absolutely not," he says. "Look, I've never made an appearance or been a lawyer for anyone who's been [associated with terrorism]. But there are plenty of other lawyers who have made those appearances and actually represented those governments, and their name isn't Faisal Gill and they weren’t born in Pakistan and they aren't on this list."
Campaign for L.A. City Attorney.
In March 2021, Faisal Gill announced his campaign for Los Angeles City Attorney in 2022.


Hesychius of Jerusalem

Hesychius of Jerusalem was a Christian presbyter and exegete, active during the first half of the fifth century. Nothing certain is known as to the dates of his birth and death (450s?), or, indeed concerning the events of his life. Bearing as he does the title πρεσβύτερος "priest", he is not to be confused with Bishop Hesychius of Jerusalem, a contemporary of Gregory the Great.
Attribution.
The writings of Hesychius of Jerusalem have been in part lost, in part handed down and edited as the work of other authors, and some are still buried in libraries in manuscript. Whoever would collect and arrange the fragments of Hesychius which have come down to us must go back to the manuscripts; for in Migne's edition of the Fathers the works of various writers named Hesychius are thrown together without regard for order under the heading "Hesychius, Presbyter of Jerusalem". About half of the matter under "Hesychius" must be discarded. However, the commentary on Leviticus) which is extant in its entirety only in Latin is authentic, although its biblical text has been aligned to the Vulgate text rather than the Septuagint. Its authenticity has been proved by the publication of a Greek fragment, which, moreover, shows that the Latin text is in poor condition. The collection of ascetic maxims is the work of Hesychius of Sinai, and not of his namesake of Jerusalem.
A comprehensive critical edition of the homilies, both authentic and spurious, transmitted in Greek under Hesychius' name was published by Michel Aubineau.
Method and importance of his exegetical writings.
Judging from the extant fragments—scattered and translated into Armenian, Georgian, and Latin—Hesychius must have been a very prolific writer on Biblical, particularly Old Testament, exegetics. The notice in the "Greek Menology" under 28 March, in which mention is made of the exposition of the entire Scriptures, can refer to none other than Hesychius of Jerusalem. In hermeneutics he adheres closely to the allegorico-mystical method of the Alexandrines; he finds in every sentence of the Bible a mystery of dogma, and reads into texts of the Old Testament the whole complexus of ideas in the New. He follows Origen of Alexandria in choosing for the enunciative form of exegesis the shortest possible marginal gloss (paratheseis).
His comment on Isaiah, xix, 1, "the Lord will ascend upon a swift cloud, and will enter into Egypt" is "Christ in the arms of the Virgin". Water represents always to him "the mystical water" (of baptism), and bread, "the mystical table" (of the Eucharist). It is this hyper-allegorical and glossarial method which constitutes the peculiar characteristic of his exegesis, and proves a valuable help to the literary critic in distinguishing authentic Hesychiana from the unauthentic.
The anti-Semitic tone of many scholia may find an explanation in local conditions; likewise geographical and topographical allusions to the holy places of Palestine would be expected of an exegete living at Jerusalem. The importance of Hesychius for textual criticism lies in the fact that many of his paraphrases echo the wording of his exemplar, and still more in his frequent citation of variants from other columns of the Hexapla or Tetrapla, particularly readings of Symmachus, whereby he has saved many rare variants.
He is likewise of importance in Biblical stichometry. His "Capitula" and commentaries show the early Christian division into chapters of at least the Twelve Minor Prophets and Isaiah, which corresponds to the inner sequence of ideas of the respective books better than the modern division. In the case of certain separate books, Hesychius has inaugurated an original stichic division of the Sacred Text—for the "citizen of the Holy City" (hagiopolites) cited in the oldest manuscripts of "catenae" of the Psalms, and the Canticles, is none other than Hesychius of Jerusalem. It was discovered by Giovanni Mercati that in some manuscripts the initial letter of each division according to Hesychius is indicated in colour. Hesychius must have been generally known as an authority, for he is quoted simply as Hagiopolites, or, elsewhere, by the equally laconic expression "him of Jerusalem" (tou Hierosolymon).
Separate commentaries.
It is certain that Hesychius was the author of consecutive commentaries on Leviticus, the Psalms, the Canticle of Canticles, the Twelve Minor Prophets, Isaiah, and Luke (Chapter i?). His name occurs in catenae in connection with an occasional scholium to texts from other books (Genesis, 1 and 2 Samuel, Ezekiel, Daniel, Matthew, John, Acts, the Catholic Epistles), which, however, apart from the question of their authenticity, are not necessarily taken from complete commentaries on the respective books. Likewise the citations from Hesychius in ascetic florilegia are taken from exegetical works. The most perplexing problem is the connection of Hesychius with the three commentaries on the Psalms attributed to him. The numerous citations from Hesychius in catenae of the Psalms and the exegetical works on the Psalms handed down over his name, particularly in Oxford and Venice manuscripts, are so widely at variance with each other as to preclude any question of mere variations in different transcriptions of one original; either Hesychius was the author of several commentaries on the Psalms or the above-mentioned commentaries are to be attributed to several authors perhaps named Hesychius. As a matter of fact Spanish manuscripts clearly distinguish between Hesychius the Monk, author of commentaries on the Psalms and Canticles, and Hesychius the Priest. In 1900 the commentary on the Psalms included among the works of Saint Athanasius was explained as the glossary of Hesychius issued over a pseudonym. This hypothesis has since been confirmed by further evidence.
A complete commentary of Hesychius on the Canticles of the Old and New Testament, which are known to have constituted a distinct book in the early Christian Bible, is preserved in manuscript; any edition of this must be based on the Bodl. Miscell., 5, saec. 9. Another codex which would have been particularly valuable for this edition and for the solution of the Hesychius problem, the Turin manuscript B. VII. 30, saec. 8-9, has unfortunately been destroyed by fire. The Mechitarists of San Lazzaro have in their possession an Armenian commentary on Job over the name of Hesychius of Jerusalem, which was published with a French translation by Charles Mercier and Charles Renoux in 1983. The scholia of Hesychius to the Twelve Minor Prophets, which are preserved in six manuscripts at Rome, Paris, and Moscow, have been published by Mats Eriksson. His commentary on Isaiah was discovered in 1900 in the anonymous marginal notes to an eleventh-century Vatican manuscript (Vatic., 347) and published with a facsimile; the authenticity of these 2860 scholia was later confirmed by a ninth-century Bodleian manuscript (Miscell., 5).
Scholia to the Magnificat, in the "catenae" of Canticles, and manuscripts at Paris and Mount Athos establish beyond doubt the fact that Hesychius left a commentary on the Gospel of St. Luke, at least on the first chapter. For evidence as to the authenticity of the "Harmony of the Gospels" the treatise on the Resurrection must first be examined. This is extant in two forms, a longer (under Gregory of Nyssa and a shorter, the latter an abridgement of the former and as yet unpublished. In tenth-, eleventh-, and twelfth-century manuscripts of the former, to "Hesychius Presbyter of Jerusalem" is added the further title "the theologian".


Chris Tomlin

Christopher Dwayne Tomlin (born May 4, 1972) is an American contemporary Christian music singer, songwriter, and worship leader from Grand Saline, Texas, United States who has sold over 7 million records. He is a member of Passion Conferences and is signed to EMI's sixstepsrecords. Some of his most well-known songs are "How Great Is Our God", "Our God", "Whom Shall I Fear (God of Angel Armies)" and his cover of "Good Good Father".
Tomlin has been awarded 23 GMA Dove Awards, a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Christian Music Album for his 2012 album "And If Our God Is For Us", and two RIAA certified platinum albums. Because of his songs' popularity in many contemporary churches, TIME magazine stated he may be the "most often sung artist anywhere". Tomlin's 2013 album "Burning Lights" debuted at No. 1 on the "Billboard" 200 chart, becoming the fourth CCM album in history to do so.
Early life.
Tomlin was born in Grand Saline, Texas in 1972 to Donna and Connie Tomlin. He has two younger brothers, Ryan and Cory. Tomlin was given his first guitar by his father and learned how to play by playing along with Willie Nelson records.
Tomlin wrote his first worship song at age fourteen. During high school, he learned to lead worship in his youth group. After graduating from Grand Saline High School in 1990, he entered Tyler Junior College (TJC) planning for a medical or physical therapy career. Tomlin graduated in 1992 and enrolled in Texas A&M University to study medicine. He grew active in a campus Christian group called Breakaway, where he became the worship leader. In 1994, Tomlin graduated from Texas A&M with a bachelor's degree in psychology. After college Tomlin participated as a worship leader at various camps in Texas, including Dawson McAllister Youth Conferences. While at Breakaway, Tomlin participated in a Bible study led by then Choice Ministries founder Louie Giglio. In 1997, Tomlin partnered with Giglio to found Passion Conferences.
Career.
In 1995, Tomlin released "Inside Your Love", which was released independently. In 1998, he released "Authentic" on Sparrow Records.
In 2000, Tomlin signed onto newly founded sixstepsrecords, a subsidiary of Passion Conferences. His first nationally released solo project, titled "The Noise We Make", was released in 2001, featuring the song "Forever". He released the live EP "545" and his second studio album "Not to Us" in 2002.
Since his signing onto sixstepsrecords, Tomlin has released nine full-length studio albums. 2004's "Arriving" was the first to chart on Billboard's Hot Christian Albums chart and the Billboard 200. Tomlin has topped the Hot Christian Albums chart six times, and his 2013 album "Burning Lights" topped the Billboard 200, making the album only the fourth contemporary Christian album to do so.
Tomlin has also released one live album, recorded in Austin Music Hall, and two Christmas albums (2009, 2015), both of which topped the Holiday albums chart on Billboard.
Tomlin has toured with many contemporary Christian artists, such as Delirious?, Steven Curtis Chapman, Michael W. Smith, and MercyMe. Tomlin has headlined several tours, and has also joined Passion Conferences for national and global tours and events. Tomlin has also participated in various other conferences festivals including Grand Saline's annual Salt Festival in Texas, Hillsong's 2007 conference, and the SoCal Harvest in Anaheim.
On June 14, 2007, Tomlin's version of the song "Indescribable" was used as the official wake-up call for Mission Specialist Patrick Forrester on Space Shuttle mission STS-117.
Other ventures.
Tomlin is one of the members of CompassionArt, a charity and songwriting team that released an album in 2008. In 2014, he became a member on the board of directors of CURE International, a nonprofit organization that provides medical care to children in the developing world.
In May 2008, Tomlin announced a move from the Austin Stone Community Church, to start a new church with Louie Giglio in Atlanta, Georgia. The Passion City Church held its first service on February 15, 2009, and features Tomlin as one of its worship leaders.
In April 2019, Tomlin and his wife Lauren started Angel Armies, a nonprofit organization that works to bring people and ministry organizations together to attempt to solve issues related to vulnerable youth in the United States.
Personal life.
Tomlin married Lauren Bricken on November 9, 2010. Together they have two daughters, Ashlyn and Madison. They live on a estate on the outskirts of Franklin, Tennessee which they have nicknamed "Peacefield".
Discography.
Independent releases
Commercial releases
Awards and achievements.
According to Christian Copyright Licensing International's list of the top 25 worship songs in the US in August 2007, Tomlin held five spots with songs he has either written, co-written or performed: "How Great Is Our God" (No. 1), "Forever" (No. 5), "Holy Is the Lord" (No. 7), "We Fall Down" (No. 12), and "Indescribable" (No. 22) (written by Laura Story). In 2008, Tomlin held 6 spots on "20 The Countdown Magazine"'s top 20 praise and worship songs: "We Fall Down" (No. 14), "Forever" (No. 10), "Holy is the Lord" (No. 8), "Indescribable" (No. 6), "Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)" (No. 3), and "How Great is our God" (No. 1). In 2012, CCLI reported that his songs were performed more than 3 million times in churches around the world. TIME magazine has called him "most often sung artist anywhere" in 2006, and in 2013, he was also pronounced the most sung songwriter in the world. In 2017, he became only the fourth artist to receive the Sound Exchange Digital Radio Award for surpassing a billion digital radio streams, and in 2018, he became the first Christian artist to receive the Billionaire award from Pandora for reaching a billion Pandora streams.
GMA Dove Awards.
Throughout his career, Chris Tomlin has been nominated to 32 Dove Awards (6 of them collaborative efforts) and won 19 of them.
Others.
Tomlin was nominated for two 2009 Visionary Award: Male Entertainer of the Year and Song of the Year for "Jesus Messiah".


Bacchylus

Bacchylus was a second century Bishop of Corinth who was known for supporting Papal claims, and writings on the passover.


On the Resting-Places of the Saints

On the Resting-Places of the Saints is a heading given to two early medieval pieces of writing, also known as Þá hálgan and the Secgan, which exist in various manuscript forms in both Old English and Latin, the earliest surviving manuscripts of which date to the mid-11th century. "Secgan" is so named from its Old English incipit, "Secgan be þam Godes sanctum þe on Engla lande aerost reston" "Tale of God's saints who first rested in England"), and is a list of fifty places which had shrines and remains of Anglo-Saxon saints. "Þá hálgan" (pronounced thar halgan) is a version of the so-called Kentish Royal Legend (its incipit "Her cyð ymbe þa halgan þe on Angelcynne restað" "Here [follows] a relation on the saints who rest in the English nation") is a heading which appears to be for both texts, as the Kentish legend, which comes first, is actually an account of how various members of the royal family of Kent, descendants of Aethelbert of Kent, founded monasteries and came to be regarded as saints. As such it is closer to other hagiographical texts than to the list of burial sites that follows it. The texts describe people living from the 7th to 10th centuries, and they exist in both Old English and Latin versions, but both have their earliest known manuscripts dating from the 11th century.
The Manuscripts.
The two texts now known as 'Þá hálgan' and 'Secgan' are known from two extant manuscripts written in Old English, that were transcribed in the 11th century. The manuscript known as Stowe MS 944, (folia 29v-39r), the older of the two, is thought to have been written shortly after 1031. Rollason (1978) argues that the scribe was including material dating to as early as the mid 9th century (for example the reference to Ubbanford).
Stowe MS 944 is a bound volume now in the British Library, the full scanned images of which are at British Library Online. It begins with a history of Hyde Abbey, Winchester, written in 1771, followed by a wide collection of much older original source documents. A selection of medieval drawings, is followed by a "Liber vitae", written in 1031 consisting of lists of names of brethren and benefactors of the New Minster, also at Winchester, and substantially annotated. Other historiographical texts follow, including the will of King Ælfred. The two documents being considered here, originally composed entirely separately, were then written into the same Old English manuscript, under a combined heading of 'On the Resting-Places of the Saints'. However, it is the second document ('Secgan') which provided the list of saints. The first, ('Þá hálgan') includes mention of many saints, particularly those relating to Kent, but written as part of a narrative of the Kentish Royal Legend.
CCCC 201: The two documents are found in substantially the same (but not identical) form in the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (CCCC 201, pp. 149–151). CCCC 201 is a substantial 3-volume set of manuscripts, with 96 constituent pieces of writing, in various 'hands' (different people's handwriting). Mostly written in Old English, it begins with Homilies of St Wolfstan.
Vitellius D: A third OE version was in the Cotton library's Vitellius D. xvii. Unfortunately this volume was destroyed in the fire of 1731.
Vitellius A3: This is one of several Latin translations of the Old English texts. It survived the 1731 fire and is now in the British Library's Cotton Vitellius A 3 ff3-5. Both extant OE texts and this Latin version were published by Felix Liebermann as "Die Heiligen Englands: Angelsächsisch unt Lateinisch", a German volume published in 1889, which is still the only scholarly published version of these texts.
"Þá hálgan".
"Þá hálgan" () is a version of a wider group of texts on the Kentish Royal Legend, and deals with the earliest Christian kings of Kent and their families, and their pious acts, starting with the baptism of king Æthelberht of Kent by Augustine in AD 597. The text traces four generations after Æthelberht, spanning the 7th century and thus the entire period of the Christianization of England. In addition to the extensive genealogy, (in which members of the family marry into the royal families of Mercia, Northumbria and East Anglia) it has an account of the foundation of the Abbey at Minster-in-Thanet, bound up with the lives of two murdered brothers Æthelred and Æthelberht, the founding Abbess at Thanet, Domne Eafe, and her daughter saint Mildthryth.
The particular version of the Legend that accompanies the list of saints below mentions many Kentish saints and their resting places, and thus complements well the "Secgan" list, which has very few entries from that area. It is possible that a compiler had access to a specifically Kentish list that he drew on while collating his material. In addition to those mentioned above, "Þá hálgan" notes Æthelburh of Kent (who rests at Lyminge), Eanswith (Folkestone), Eormengyth (near Thanet), Ermenilda (Ely), Seaxburh (Ely), Æthelthryth (Ely), Werburgh (Hanbury,then Chester), Eorcengota (overseas).
"Secgan".
The "Secgan" (abbreviated R.P.S. in the Oxford Dictionary of Saints) is a list of 54 places in England where saints' remains are deposited, listing a total of 89 saints, of whom 79 were active in England. The list is itemized with a formulaic "Ðonne", e.g.
in many cases the site is further identified by a topographical feature, mostly a river, e.g.


Emmanuel Marie Philippe Louis Lafont

Emmanuel Marie Philippe Louis Lafont (born 26 October 1945) is a French prelate of the Catholic Church who was Bishop of Cayenne in French Guiana from 2004 to 2020.
Lafont was ordained a priest in 1970.
Pope John Paul II named him Bishop of Cayenne on 18 June 2004.
Pope Francis accepted his resignation on 26 October 2020, his 75th birthday.


Olubunmi Akinlade

Olubunmi Akinlade is an Anglican bishop in Nigeria: he is the current Bishop of Ife.


David Frayne

 The Very Rev David Frayne MA was an eminent Anglican priest in the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty first centuries.
He was educated at Reigate Grammar School and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and was ordained in 1961. He was Curate at St Michael, East Wickham, and then Priest in charge of St Barnabas, Downham. He held incumbencies at The Barn Church, Kew, Caterham, Redcliffe, Bristol, and Bedminster before he was appointed Provost of Blackburn in December 1992. He retired in September 2001 as Dean, following the reclassification of all Provosts as such the preceding year in September 2000.


Hannah Hurnard

Hannah Hurnard (1905–90) is a 20th-century Christian author, best known for her allegorical novel, "Hinds' Feet on High Places".
Biography.
Hurnard was born in 1905 in Colchester, England, to Quaker parents. She graduated from Ridgelands Bible College in 1926. In 1932 she became an independent missionary, moving to Haifa, Palestine. Her work in Palestine and later Israel lasted 50 years, although she would later maintain a home in England as well.
"Eagles' Wings to the Higher Places" has been said to support beliefs in pantheism, universalism, and gnosticism. "Unveiled Glory" tells of how she came to believe in Universal reconciliation.


Martyrology of Rabban Sliba

The Martyrology of Rabban Sliba is a book containing the names and feast days of a number of martyrs of the Syriac Orthodox Church. It was edited by P. Paul Peeters, S.J., and published in "Analecta Bollandiana" #27 in 1908.
Saints included.
Aaron the Illustrious was a Christian monk of Mesopotamia from the 4th century. He came from Sarug in Osrhoene and was a disciple of Saint Eugene. He built two monasteries near Melitene in Armenia in the 4th century. He had a feast day on Pentecost Monday in the Syriac Orthodox Church, and on February 3, October 22, and May 23.
Saint Abel (Syrian) is a saint of the Syriac Orthodox Church. He is considered the patron saint of the blind and the lame. His feast day is celebrated on August 2. It has been argued that he may be the same person as Saint Rubin.
Mar Abhai (also known as Abhai), from the land of Gargar is a saint of the Syriac Orthodox Church. His feast day is June 26.
Abhai of Hach was an abbot of the monastery of Kartamin in Byzantine Syria. He is a saint of the Syriac Orthodox Church, with a feast day of November 18.
Abhai (saint) is a saint of the Syriac Orthodox Church. He is said to have lived for 100 years. He is a patron saint against poisonous reptiles. His feast day is celebrated on July 15 and May 3. Saint Abhai is not to be confused with the 4th-century Syriac martyr Abai.
Abhai (teacher) was the instructor or teacher of Abhai the general. He is regarded as a saint, and his feast day is November 1.


Petrus von Hatzfeld

Petrus von Hatzfeld (1748 in Münster - 24 April 1823 in Boesfeld, today in Herzebrock-Clarholz) was a German Roman Catholic priest and forty-eighth abbot of Marienfeld Abbey.


Andrew Fairfoul

Andrew Fairfoul (c 1606-1663) was the first post-Restoration Archbishop of Glasgow, from 1661 until his death in November 1663. He became Chancellor of Glasgow University after his consecration as Archbishop.
Fairfoul was born in Anstruther and studied at the University of St Andrews. He became chaplain to the Earl of Rothes and then Minister of North Leith and later of Duns. He was nominated for the Archbishopric by King Charles II and consecrated in London on 15 December 1661.
On 19 April 1662 Fairfoul made his public entry into Glasgow accompanied by the Earl of Glencairn, the Lord Chancellor of Scotland who was his predecessor as Chancellor of the University. The University's historian James Coutts refers to him as "a man of boisterous mirth and careless life", but quotes the recollection of Principal Robert Baillie that Fairfoul preached "soberly and well" on his first Sunday in the city. The Earl, the Archbishop and their entourage dined at the University the day after this first sermon, and the meal is said to have cost more than £200.
The Archbishop was heavily involved in energetic attempts by the Episcopalian authorities to root out Covenanters and other dissenters. A committee of the Privy Council met in the fore-hall of the University on 1 October 1662 to address the problem of ministers refusing to recognise the rights of patrons and bishops to present ministers, and many ministers were removed from their parishes.
Fairfoul died on 7 November 1663 on his way to Edinburgh and was buried in the Abbey Church at Holyrood.


Florentius of Sardis

Florentius of Sardis was a 5th century bishop of Sardis and theologian.
He was also an attendee to the Council of Chalcedon fl 451. where he noted himself by giving impromptu translations of Latin text for his Greek speaking colleagues. and at one heated point in the Council, he called for an adjournment.
He was also one of 22 delegates who formed a subcommittee of the Council, to examine and formulate the statement for the general Synod.
He was the recipient of a letter from Theodoret, who urged Florentius to oppose heresy and support those who are being persecuted.


Matthew Harrison (minister)

Matthew Carl Harrison (born March 14, 1962 in Sioux City, Iowa) is the 13th and current president of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod. He was first elected to the presidency on July 13, 2010 at the synod's 64th regular convention in Houston, Texas. Harrison officially took office on September 1, 2010, and was formally installed in a service on September 11, 2010, at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis. He was elected by a 54 - 45% margin on the first ballot. He was elected to a second three-year term following a first ballot victory in the church body's first online presidential election in July 2013 . He was elected to a third three-year term in June 2016, having received 56.96 percent of the vote on the first ballot. In June 2019, Harrison was elected to a fourth three-year term with 51.76 percent of the vote on the first ballot.
Harrison had previously served as the Executive Director of the Department of LCMS World Relief and Human Care, and as founding president of the LCMS Housing Corporation (also known as Lutheran Housing Support).
Early years.
Harrison was born in Sioux City, Iowa, on March 14, 1962. He was baptized at Bethel Lutheran Church in Lawton, Iowa, and grew up in Sioux City, where his family belonged to Redeemer Lutheran Church. He graduated from Sioux City East High School in 1980 and Morningside College in 1987. Harrison then attended Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Indiana, from which he earned a Master of Divinity in 1989 and a Master of Sacred Theology degree in 1991. In 2011, he received honorary doctorates from Concordia Theological Seminary and from Concordia University Ann Arbor in Michigan.
Ministry.
Harrison's first parish was at St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Westgate, Iowa, where he served from 1991 to 1995.
Harrison served as pastor of Zion Lutheran Church of Fort Wayne, Indiana, from 1995 to 2001. During his ministry at Zion, the urban decay around the church moved him to join with St. Peter Catholic Church and community leaders to revitalize the Hanna-Creighton neighborhood. This joint effort recruited investors to clear many dilapidated homes, restore others, and build new ones in the ten block area. The effort was a success and led to the construction of a new branch of the Allen County Public Library and an office for the Fort Wayne Urban League in the neighborhood. This initiative continues in the City of Fort Wayne's Renaissance Pointe project.
In Harrison's role as head of LCMS World Relief beginning in 2001, he made several trips to work with those in need among the slums of Kibera, Kenya, and in other East African countries. He worked in Asia following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami and in Louisiana in 2005 following Hurricane Katrina. He also spent several months in early 2010 coordinating LCMS aid in Haiti following the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
On February 16, 2012, Harrison testified in front of the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in opposition to contraceptive mandates imposed upon parachurch organizations by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.


Robert Buchanan (minister)

Robert Buchanan (1802–1875) was a Scottish minister and historian who served as Moderator of the General Assembly to the Free Church of Scotland in 1860/61. He was one of the leading figures in the Disruption of 1843.
He had correspondence with several notable figures of the day over many years: Lord Aberdeen; Sir Robert Peel; Thomas Chalmers from 1834 to 1845; and George Combe from 1821 to 1827.
Life.
He was born in July 1802 at St Ninian's, a small district in the east of Stirling in central Scotland. He was the son of Alexander Buchanan, a brewer and farmer, and his wife, Margaret Wingate. He studied Divinity at Glasgow University. He was ordained in the Church of Scotland in 1826 in Gargunnock and translated in 1829 to Saltoun in East Lothian, replacing Rev Dr Gilbert Burnet.
In 1833 he moved to the Tron Kirk in Glasgow. He then lived at 2 Richmond Street.
Working from the base created by his predecessor, Rev Dr Thomas Chalmers he did much "home mission" work in Glasgow and expanded the church into the poorer areas such as "The Wynds" of old Glasgow. .
In 1838 it was Buchanan who chaired the debate on the "Auchterarder question", regarding the ability of a congregation to refuse a minister proposed by the local patron. This debate was the beginning of the schism which eventually led to the Disruption of 1843. In this. Buchanan stood at the side of Chalmers and was part of the heated debate. The church split in two and he was thereafter a minister of the Free Church of Scotland.
In 1857 he transferred to the Free College Church College on Lynedoch Street.
In 1860 he succeeded Very Rev William Cunningham as Moderator of the General Assembly, the highest position in the Free Church. He was succeeded in turn in 1861 by Rev Robert Smith Candlish.
From 1863 to 1873 he presided over the committee looking at the potential union of the Free Church with the United Presbyterian Church, the Reformed Presbyterian Church and the Presbyterian Church of England, all being doctrinally similar. Although these talks were unsuccessful, large sections did merge in 1900. From 1872 until death he was an active member of the Glasgow School Board.
In later life he lived at 2 Sandyford Place, a handsome Georgian terraced house in north-west Glasgow.
He was invited to speak at the Scottish Church in Rome, Italy in February 1875. He fell ill during this trip and died in Rome during the night of 30/31 March 1875. His body was returned to Glasgow for burial.
Artistic recognition.
He was photographed when he was Moderator in 1860 ("illustrated" right) at the foot of the steps to New College with several ex-Moderators of the Free Church.
He was portrayed by James Armytage.
Family.
He married twice: firstly to Anne Handyside (in 1828) then to Elizabeth Stoddart (in 1843). He had at least 11 children.