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
July 3rd
John Crowe Ransom, one of the leaders of the Vanderbilt Agrarians and a leading 20th century writer and teacher.
https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/john-crowe-ransom/
July 4th
Thomas Jefferson, undoubtedly the South’s most recognizable Enlightenment philosopher, but his most important intellectual contribution is rather the opposite of all that: his agrarianism and insistence on local customs and governance (i.e., the preservation of old English traditions).
https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/?s=Thomas+Jefferson
July 6th
Paul Hamilton Hayne, one of the South’s best poets.
https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/hayne-paul-hamilton/
https://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/hayne/hayne.html
July 9th
Sir William Berkeley, a colonial governor of Virginia whose influence is felt within Southern culture to this day.
https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Berkeley_Sir_William_1605-1677
July 9th
Pierre d’Iberville, Canadian soldier and explorer, the founder of the first permanent French settlement in Louisiana.
https://64parishes.org/entry/pierre-le-moyne-diberville-2
July 9th
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, one of the great figures of Southern literature for his comic work Georgia Scenes, but also an active preacher and a leader of four universities.
https://georgiawritershalloffame.org/honorees/augustus-baldwin-longstreet
July 10th
Gen Henry Benning, from the Georgia Supreme Court to a successful general in the War and back to practicing law afterwards.
https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/henry-l-benning-1814-1875/
July 17th
John Coltrane, the famous jazz composer and performer.
https://southernorthodox.org/john-coltranes-jazz-the-african-diasporas-search-for-a-religious-home/
July 17th
Gen James Johnston Pettigrew, a good example of a Southern gentleman.
https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/pettigrew-james-johnston
July 23rd
Eudora Welty, one of the South’s best writers.
https://eudorawelty.org/biography/
July 25th
Wilmer Mills, a gifted Louisiana poet who died young.
https://www.timesfreepress.com/obits/2011/jul/28/wilmer-mills/16401/
https://kirkcenter.org/essays/wilmer-mills-the-poet-as-maker/
July 26th
Sam Houston, one of the most influential men in Texas history, but the arc of his life also touched other States and tribes.
https://www.dissidentmama.net/when-men-were-giants/
https://www.history.com/topics/19th-century/sam-houston
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/510/sam-houston
July 29th
John Slidell, an important diplomat during the War.
http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/chron/civilwarnotes/slidell.html
July 30th
George Fitzhugh, a helpful critic of the pure capitalist economic system.
https://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/fitzhughcan/bio.html
July 30th
Gen George Pickett, a soldier for most of his life, he is best known perhaps for his part in the Battle of Gettysburg.
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/george-e-pickett
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/812/george-edward-pickett
July 31st
Randolph Shotwell, a gifted writer, and a microcosm of the suffering South as she went through the War and Reconstruction.
https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/randolph-shotwell-in-war-and-prison/
Also, to celebrate some of the saints of July from the South’s Christian inheritance of various lands, follow these links:
https://southernorthodox.org/orthodox-saints-for-dixie-july/
http://confiterijournal.blogspot.com/2020/08/happy-feast-for-saints-of-july.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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