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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