Word: anglican
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Dorothy Leigh Sayers Fleming, 64, erudite, cherub-faced whoduniteer (The Nine Tailors), translator (Chanson de Roland), playwright (The Devil to Pay), rapier-witted Anglican writer on theology (Creed or Chaos?); of a coronary thrombosis; in Witham, England. One of Oxford's first women graduates (Somerville College, 1915), Dorothy Sayers gained fame and fortune with her deft mysteries, wrote religious dramas for the Church of England's Canterbury Festival, worked since 1947 on her magnum opus, Dante's Divine Comedy in a vivid, homiletic translation, completed two canticles (Inferno, 1949; Purgatorio, 1955) before her death...
...winter of 1865, in the little English village of Cowley St. John, two miles from Oxford, a group of Anglican clergymen gathered together for sanctuary and religious guidance...
Sisterhoods at Oxford, Wantage, and Clewer had already offered, with the blessing of Anglican bishops a number of sanctuaries for women. Great communities dedicated to the saints had sprung up all over England. It remained only for an organized movement of men to develop. The Society of St. John the Evangelist, or the Cowley Fathers, provided that organization...
From these early beginnings has grown a world-wide Anglican institution, comprised of British, American, and Canadian congregations, with missions in Scotland, Japan, India, and South Africa. The Society publishes three periodicals, numerous pamphlets and books, and has carried Episcopal missionary work to the remotest corners of the earth. Its headquarters in the United States are at the Monastery of St. Mary and St. John, in Cambridge...
Thirty-nine years before the gleam of lanterns from the steeple of Boston's Old North Church warned Paul Revere of approaching redcoats, a short, stocky Anglican divine, clad in near-rags and wasted by dysentery, tottered ashore at Boston Harbor. After convincing one rector that he was indeed a clergyman ("my ship-clothes not being the best credentials"), Charles Wesley, prolific composer (6,500 hymns) and restless younger brother of Methodism's Founder John Wesley, preached a sermon in Christ Church, better known as the Old North Church...