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 in 2023 on March 27th. 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.
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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 22nd
Alabama Confederate Memorial Day
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
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 26th
Florida Confederate Memorial Day
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/
April 29th
Mississippi Confederate Memorial Day
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
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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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