| Resolution Number: | 2015-A057 | |
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| 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:
| 1/3 | Gladys Aylward |
| 1/4 | Thomas Atkinson |
| 1/5 | Amma Syncletica of Alexandria |
| 1/12 | Caesaria of Arles |
| 1/30 | Charles Stuart, King and Martyr, 1649 |
| 1/31 | Marcella |
| 2/10 | Scholastica, Religious, 543 |
| 4/3 | Katherine Drexel |
| 4/3 | Mary of Egypt |
| 4/17 | Kateri Tekakwitha |
| 4/22 | Maria Gabriella Sagheddu |
| 4/30 | Marie de l’Incarnation, Educator and Spiritual Teacher in New France, 1672 |
| 5/21 | Helena, Protector of the Holy Places, 330 |
| 7/11 | Olga of Kiev |
| 7/23 | Bridget of Sweden, Founder of Bridgettine Order, 1373 |
| 8/12 | Jane Frances de Chantal, Religious |
| 9/28 | Paula and Eustochium |
| 10/3 | Mother Theodore (Anne-Therese) Guerin, Religious, Educator, Prophetic Witness, 1856 |
| 10/12 | Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845 |
| 11/5 | Catherine of Alexandria |
| 11/8 | Elizabeth of the Trinity |
| 11/16 | Gertrude the Great and Mechtilde of Hackeborn |
| 11/29 | Dorothy Day |
| 12/13 | Ella 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. |
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