Lesser Feasts & Fasts
Additionally, there are quite a number of lesser feasts and fasts and other commemorations. The people commemorated range from Agnes, martyred in Rome in A.D. 304 to William Pocher DeBose, priest, who died in 1918 and from John Donne, priest and poet, who died in 1631 to John and Charles Wesley, priests in the Church of England, who died in 1791 & 1788 respectively. The list also includes several famous 20th Century Christians, such as pastor, civil rights leader, & Nobel Laureate, Martin Luther King, Jr.; author and professor Clive Staples Lewis; and German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer who was executed days before the end of WWII by the German government he opposed. The list also includes a number of remarkable women:
- Julia Chester Emery, national leader of what later became The Episcopal Church Women - 9 January
- Florance Li Tim-Oi, the Hong Kong deacon who, during WWII, became first woman ordained to the priesthood in the Anglican Communion - 24 January
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Amelia Bloomer, Sojourner Truth, & Harriet Ross Tubman, advocates for equal rights for all - 20 July
- Margaret, 11th Century Queen of Scotland - 16 November
- Hilda, 7th Cenury Abbess of Whitby - 18 November
- Elizabeth, 13th Century Princess of Hungary - 19 November
- Emma, 19th Century Queen of Hawaii (list with her husband King Kamehameha) - 28 November
Two notes: The term Kalendar is sometimes used in place of calendar in reference to the dates and seasons of the church year. The book previously entitled "Lesser Feasts and Fasts" is now called "Holy Women, Holy Men - Celebrating the Saints" and is available from Episcopal Books & Resources.
