Resolution Number: 2015-A057
Title: Consider Adding Commemorations to "A Great Cloud of Witnesses"
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred as Substituted
Final Text:

Resolved, That the 78th General Convention instruct the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music to review the following persons in light of the criteria adopted by this General Convention:

1/3Gladys Aylward
1/4Thomas Atkinson
1/5Amma Syncletica of Alexandria
1/12Caesaria of Arles
1/30Charles Stuart, King and Martyr, 1649
1/31Marcella
2/10Scholastica, Religious, 543
4/3Katherine Drexel
4/3Mary of Egypt
4/17Kateri Tekakwitha
4/22Maria Gabriella Sagheddu
4/30Marie de l’Incarnation, Educator and Spiritual Teacher in New France, 1672
5/21Helena, Protector of the Holy Places, 330
7/11Olga of Kiev
7/23Bridget of Sweden, Founder of Bridgettine Order, 1373
8/12Jane Frances de Chantal, Religious
9/28Paula and Eustochium
10/3Mother Theodore (Anne-Therese) Guerin, Religious, Educator, Prophetic Witness, 1856
10/12Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845
11/5Catherine of Alexandria
11/8Elizabeth of the Trinity
11/16Gertrude the Great and Mechtilde of Hackeborn
11/29Dorothy Day
12/13Ella Baker
Emily Ayckbowm, Founder of the Sisters of the Community of the Church, 1870
Kate Harwood Waller Barrett
Etheldred Berry
Mary McLeod Bethune
Louise De Koven Bowen, Hull House
Josephine Butler
Denzil A. Carty
Anna Bessant Cassey, Peter Cassey, and Henrietta Lockwood
Rosa Judith Cisneros
Atilano Coco
Florence Converse
Ella Cara Deloria, Native American Poet and Writer
Helen Fuller
Ann Gream
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
Sister Margaret Hawk, Church Army, Native American Activist
Addie D. Waites Hunton
Satoko Kitahara
Susan Trevor Knapp, NY Training School for Deaconesses
Queen Lili’uokalani
Eva Lee Matthews and Beatrice Henderson
Victoria Earle Matthews, Author and Settlement House Worker, 1907
Eleanor Laura McMain
Harriet O’Brien Monsell
Maria Montessori
Anna Newell, St. Margaret’s House, Berkeley
Phoebe Palmer
Katherine Parr
Ellen Albertina Polyblank [Sister Albertina] & Elizabeth Ann Rogers [Sister Beatrice]
Richeldis of Faverches
Eleanor Roosevelt
Dorothy Sayers
Mary Kingsbury Simkovitch, Greenwich House, NYC
Therese of Lisieux
Adeline Blanchard Tyler
Ruth Elaine Younger (Mother Ruth, CHS); and be it further

Resolved, That the General Convention instruct the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music to create collects and biographies for those persons on this list who conform to the criteria and present these materials to the 79th General Convention for addition to “A Great Cloud of Witnesses,” with full explanation for those revisions; and be it further

Resolved, That the General Convention request the Joint Standing Committee on Program, Budget and Finance to consider a budget allocation of $15,700 for the implementation of this resolution.

Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Salt Lake City, 2015 (New York: General Convention, 2015), pp. 729-731.

Legislative History

Author: Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music
Originating House: House of Bishops
Originating Committee: Prayer Book, Liturgy and Music

House of Bishops

The House of Bishops Committee on Prayer Book, Liturgy and Music presented its Report #11 on Resolution A057 (Create Additional Liturgical Commemorations) and moved adoption of a substitute.

Original Text of Resolution:

(A057)

Resolved, the House of Deputies concurring, That the 78th General Convention instruct the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music to create collects and biographies for the following persons to be presented to the 79th General Convention for consideration for inclusion in “A Great Cloud of Witnesses”:

1/3Gladys Aylward
1/5Amma Syncletica of Alexandria
1/12Caesaria of Arles
1/31Marcella
2/10Scholastica, Religious, 543
4/3Katherine Drexel
4/3Mary of Egypt
4/17Kateri Tekakwitha
4/22Maria Gabriella Sagheddu
4/30Marie de l’Incarnation, Educator and Spiritual Teacher in New France, 1672
5/21Helena, Protector of the Holy Places, 330
7/11Olga of Kiev
7/23Bridget of Sweden, Founder of Bridgettine Order, 1373
8/12Jane Frances de Chantal, Religious
9/28Paula and Eustochium
10/3Mother Theodore (Anne-Therese) Guerin, Religious, Educator, Prophetic Witness, 1856
10/12Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845
11/5Catherine of Alexandria
11/8Elizabeth of the Trinity
11/16Gertrude the Great and Mechtilde of Hackeborn
11/29Dorothy Day
12/13Ella Baker
Emily Ayckbowm, Founder of the Sisters of the Community of the Church, 1870
Kate Harwood Waller Barrett
Etheldred Berry
Mary McLeod Bethune
Louise De Koven Bowen, Hull House
Josephine Butler
Anna Bessant Cassey and Henrietta Lockwood
Rosa Judith Cisneros
Florence Converse
Ella Cara Deloria, Native American Poet and Writer
Helen Fuller
Ann Gream
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
Sister Margaret Hawk, Church Army, Native American Activist
Addie D. Waites Hunton
Satoko Kitahara
Susan Trevor Knapp, NY Training School for Deaconesses
Eva Lee Matthews and Beatrice Henderson
Victoria Earle Matthews, Author and Settlement House Worker, 1907
Eleanor Laura McMain
Harriet O’Brien Monsell
Maria Montessori
Anna Newell, St. Margaret’s House, Berkeley
Phoebe Palmer
Katherine Parr
Ellen Albertina Polyblank [Sister Albertina] & Elizabeth Ann Rogers [Sister Beatrice]
Richeldis of Faverches
Eleanor Roosevelt
Dorothy Sayers
Mary Kingsbury Simkovitch, Greenwich House, NYC
Therese of Lisieux
Adeline Blanchard Tyler
Ruth Elaine Younger (Mother Ruth, CHS); and be it further

Resolved, That the General Convention request the Joint Standing Committee on Program, Budget and Finance to consider a budget allocation of $15,700 for the implementation of this resolution.

Committee Substitute:

Resolved, the House of Deputies concurring, That the 78th General Convention instruct the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music to review the following persons in light of the criteria adopted by this General Convention:

1/3Gladys Aylward
1/4Thomas Atkinson
1/5Amma Syncletica of Alexandria
1/12Caesaria of Arles
1/30Charles Stuart, King and Martyr, 1649
1/31Marcella
2/10Scholastica, Religious, 543
4/3Katherine Drexel
4/3Mary of Egypt
4/17Kateri Tekakwitha
4/22Maria Gabriella Sagheddu
4/30Marie de l’Incarnation, Educator and Spiritual Teacher in New France, 1672
5/21Helena, Protector of the Holy Places, 330
7/11Olga of Kiev
7/23Bridget of Sweden, Founder of Bridgettine Order, 1373
8/12Jane Frances de Chantal, Religious
9/28Paula and Eustochium
10/3Mother Theodore (Anne-Therese) Guerin, Religious, Educator, Prophetic Witness, 1856
10/12Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845
11/5Catherine of Alexandria
11/8Elizabeth of the Trinity
11/16Gertrude the Great and Mechtilde of Hackeborn
11/29Dorothy Day
12/13Ella Baker
Emily Ayckbowm, Founder of the Sisters of the Community of the Church, 1870
Kate Harwood Waller Barrett
Etheldred Berry
Mary McLeod Bethune
Louise De Koven Bowen, Hull House
Josephine Butler
Denzil A. Carty
Anna Bessant Cassey, Peter Cassey, and Henrietta Lockwood
Rosa Judith Cisneros
Atilano Coco
Florence Converse
Ella Cara Deloria, Native American Poet and Writer
Helen Fuller
Ann Gream
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
Sister Margaret Hawk, Church Army, Native American Activist
Addie D. Waites Hunton
Satoko Kitahara
Susan Trevor Knapp, NY Training School for Deaconesses
Queen Lili’uokalani
Eva Lee Matthews and Beatrice Henderson
Victoria Earle Matthews, Author and Settlement House Worker, 1907
Eleanor Laura McMain
Harriet O’Brien Monsell
Maria Montessori
Anna Newell, St. Margaret’s House, Berkeley
Phoebe Palmer
Katherine Parr
Ellen Albertina Polyblank [Sister Albertina] & Elizabeth Ann Rogers [Sister Beatrice]
Richeldis of Faverches
Eleanor Roosevelt
Dorothy Sayers
Mary Kingsbury Simkovitch, Greenwich House, NYC
Therese of Lisieux
Adeline Blanchard Tyler
Ruth Elaine Younger (Mother Ruth, CHS); and be it further

Resolved, That the General Convention instruct the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music to create collects and biographies for those persons on this list who conform to the criteria and present these materials to the 79th General Convention for addition to “A Great Cloud of Witnesses,” with full explanation for those revisions; and be it further

Resolved, That the General Convention request the Joint Standing Committee on Program, Budget and Finance to consider a budget allocation of $15,700 for the implementation of this resolution.

Motion carried

Substitute resolution adopted

(Communicated to the House of Deputies in HB Message #52)

House of Deputies

The House of Deputies Committee on Prayer Book, Liturgy and Music presented its Report #16 on HB Message #52 on Resolution A057 (Create Additional Liturgical Commemorations) and moved concurrence.

Motion carried

The House concurred

(Communicated to the House of Bishops in HD Message #178)

Resolution Concurred by Both Houses, June 30.

Report Reference:   Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music, Reports to the 78th General Convention, 2015, pp. 393-424.
Abstract:   The 78th General Convention instructs the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music to review a list of names for inclusion in "A Great Cloud of Witnesses" and to create biographies and collects for each person.