Monday, March 2, 2020

Remembrances for March

Dear friends, if you have time, please pray for these members of the Southern family on the day they reposed.  Many thanks.

March 3rd
M. E. Bradford, one of the South’s best defenders in the latter half of the 20th hundredyear:

March 7th
Jean-Baptiste de Bienville
Canadian naval officer Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, served as three-time governor of the French colony of Louisiana intermittently from 1702 to 1743. Bienville and his older brother, Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville, traveled on an expedition that arrived in Louisiana in 1699. Together they explored the lower Mississippi River valley and established a permanent French settlement in Louisiana, Fort Maurepas. Bienville proved particularly talented, though not always successful, as a negotiator with local Native Americans. In 1718, he chose the site where New Orleans, named for the French Duc d’Orléans, was built.

March 13th
Elizabeth Madox Roberts, a gem of a writer from Kentucky:

March 19th
Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle
French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle, is perhaps best known for giving the region and ultimately the state its name: Louisiana. In 1682, while searching for a water route to the Gulf of Mexico, La Salle—accompanied by a small group of European and Native American explorers—arrived at the point where the Mississippi River empties into the Gulf of Mexico. There, he planted a post and claimed the river and its basin for France, naming the territory La Louisiane in honor of King Louis XIV. In so doing, La Salle helped set the stage for the next eighty years of French rule in the new colony.

March 20th
Lewis Grizzard, one of the many good comedians Southern culture has produced:

March 28th
Margaret Junkin Preston, sister-in-law to Stonewall Jackson and a great poetess and novelist:

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!

Anathema to the Union!

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