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
6 December
Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, he had the difficult task of leading the South during the War, and was unjustly tortured by his Yankee captors for two years after the ordeal had ended. Interestingly, his death occurred on the feast day of one of the Church’s most beloved saints, Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker (the same St Nicholas associated with the Christmas season). There have been a number of times when St Nicholas has miraculously interceded on behalf of those wrongfully accused; perhaps we will find in the Eternal Day that there was some connection between St Nicholas and Pres Davis during his imprisonment.
10 Dec.
Gov Francisco Hector, an active governor of Spanish Louisiana (1791-7), some of whose more far-seeing plans went unfulfilled because of geopolitical events outside his control.
https://64parishes.org/entry/francisco-luis-hector-baron-de-carondelet
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hector-baron-de-Carondelet
12 Dec.
Andrew Lytle of Tennessee, one of the great men of the South of any age.
https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/andrew-nelson-lytle/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/86282498/andrew-nelson-lytle
17 Dec.
John Stewart, a free black man from Virginia who became a great preacher amongst the Wyandott Indians in Ohio.
https://www.bu.edu/missiology/missionary-biography/r-s/stewart-john-1786-1823/
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/stewart-john-1786-1823/
https://www.wyandot.org/stew1.htm
https://www.wyandotte-nation.org/culture/history/published/missionary-pioneer/
24 Dec.
Charlotte ‘Lottie’ Moon, the self-sacrificing Virginia missionary to China.
http://cgbcbelton.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/lottie-moon1.pdf
http://bpnews.net/53987/chinese-government-designates-lottie-moons-church-as-historical-site
Also, to celebrate some of the saints of December from the South’s Christian inheritance of various lands, follow this link on over if you’d like:
https://confiterijournal.blogspot.com/2019/12/happy-feast-for-saints-of-december.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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