Before
we get to the Southerners of the past whom we normally honor and pray for, we
must take a moment to pray for those Southrons who died in the Nashville Christian
school shooting this past Monday. Here
are their names:
Evelyn
Hallie
William
Cynthia
Katherine
Mike
Audrey
The
addition of the shooter is not an accident.
St Silouan the Athonite (1938), echoing our Lord, stresses that one who
does not love his enemies does not have true love for God, has not acquired the
Grace of the Holy Ghost, and will not find peace:
https://www.fatheralexander.org/booklets/english/siluan_e.htm
May
God grant all of them forgiveness of sins and rest where the righteous repose.
***
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
April
1st
Ellis
Marsalis, Jr
One
of New Orleans’s great jazz musicians.
https://selu.libguides.com/BlackHistorySELA/marsalis
April
2nd
Gen
A. P. (Ambrose Powell) Hill
Amongst
the best generals serving under Lee.
Both Jackson and Lee called upon him as they stepped into the life
beyond death.
https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/hill-a-p-1825-1865/
April
3rd
Richard
Weaver
Perhaps
the greatest defender of Southern ways to be born in Dixie.
https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/weaver-richard-malcolm-jr
April
6th
Gen
Albert Sidney Johnston
One
of Dixie’s leaders during the War, killed at the Battle of Shiloh.
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/albert-sidney-johnston
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/4334/albert-sidney-johnston
April
7th
Judge
Jackson
He
helped the Southern folk-art of shape-note singing to blossom.
https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/the-colored-sacred-harp/
April
9th
Appomattox
Day
If
you have time, please pray for the South on April 9th, Appomattox
Day, the beginning of our sojourn in captivity.
Do some fasting as well if you can:
The Holy Fathers tell us and show us over and over again that humility
attracts the Grace of God.
April
11th
Caroline
Gordon
One
of the South’s best writers of novels and short stories.
April
11th
Gen
Wade Hampton III
A
fine calvary officer in the War; he was chosen to succeed JEB Stuart as the
leader of that department after he was killed in battle. After the war he served his State of South
Carolina in political office. A more
dedicated man to the cause of Southern independence would be hard to find.
https://northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/wade-hampton-iii-1818-1902/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/439/wade-hampton/photo
April
12th
Gen
Richard Taylor
He
lived and fought in Louisiana before and during the turbulent War years and was
buried there after he died.
http://www.la-cemeteries.com/Notables/Civil%20War/Taylor,%20Richard/Taylor,Richard.shtml
https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fta31
April
13th
Col
Edmund Rucker
A
leader under General Forrest in the War; lost his left arm at the Battle of
Nashville. After the war, he led the
industrial development of Birmingham, Al.
https://www.geni.com/people/Col-Edmund-W-Rucker-CSA/6000000017376848156
April
22nd
Fr
Abram Ryan
An
eloquent poet and priest beloved of people across the South.
https://catholicism.org/priest-poet-patriot-father-abram-j-ryan.html
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7494769/abram-joseph-ryan
https://www.docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/ryan/ryan.html
April
25th
Donald
Davidson
Another
outstanding 20th century defender of the South and an excellent
writer of poems, non-fiction prose, and ballads.
https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/donald-davidson/
https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2013/06/philosopher-poet-donald-davidson-agrarian-south.html
April
26th
Confederate
Memorial Day for Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi
https://www.southernagrarian.com/holidays/
April
26th
Don
Andrés Almonaster
A
wealthy Spanish civil servant who lived in New Orleans during Spanish rule of
Louisiana. He gave very generously to
rebuild the city after the Great Fire of 1788.
Two of his notable benefactions are what would become Charity Hospital
and the St Louis Cathedral in which he is buried.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andres_Almonaster_y_Rojas
April
28th
Jack
Hinson
A
family man in Tennessee trying to stay neutral in the War. When Yankees murdered two of his sons in cold
blood and mutilated their corpses, he became one of their deadliest enemies as
a sniper.
https://www.gunsandammo.com/editorial/the-story-of-civil-war-sniper-jack-hinson-and-his-rifle/247860
https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/jack-hinsons-one-man-war/
Also,
to celebrate some of the saints of April from the South’s Christian inheritance
of various lands, follow these links on over:
https://southernorthodox.org/orthodox-saints-for-dixie-april/
https://confiterijournal.blogspot.com/2020/05/happy-feast-for-saints-of-april.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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