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
4
August
Richard
‘King’ Carter, one of the most influential men of colonial Virginia, and the
builder of the historic Christ Church in 1730.
His great influence would continue through his descendants, one of whom
is our papa, Robert E. Lee.
https://www.christchurch1735.org/about/the-church/meet-the-carters
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19474872/robert-carter
https://christchurch1735.org/virtual-tour/
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:
https://confiterijournal.blogspot.com/2020/09/happy-feast-for-saints-of-august.html
--
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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