Dear friends, if you have time, please pray for these members of the Southern family on the day they reposed. Many thanks.
But one may ask: ‘What good does it do to pray for the departed?’ An answer is offered here: https://orthochristian.com/130608.html
Along with prayers and hymns for the departed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6je5axPodI
1 August
Rev James Henley Thornwell, one of the most formidable theological writers of the South. You may read some of those writings here:
https://archive.org/details/collectedwriting01thor
3 August
Miss Flannery O’Connor, one of Dixie’s best writers, fiction and non-fiction.
https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/flannery-oconnor-1925-1964
24 August
Jerry Clower, one of the South’s finest comedians.
https://www.wideopencountry.com/jerry-clower/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3573/jerry-clower
26 August
William Byrd II, a colonial Virginian of many attainments.
http://westover-plantation.com/about.htm
Also, to celebrate some of the saints of August from the South’s Christian inheritance of various lands, follow this link on over if you’d like:
http://confiterijournal.blogspot.com/2020/09/happy-feast-for-saints-of-august.html
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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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