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1. My nominations, spanning the millennia
   Lydia , Dorcas and Phoebe, since they're commemorated together (If it has to be one I nominate Lydia, the first known European convert)
   Ireanaus
   William Laud
   The Martyrs of the Sudan

2. I nominate Pierre Teilhard de Chardin who was a Jesuit Priest Scientist who wrote several outstanding works that incorporated and integrated Christian Theology and Modern Science.

3. st. john paul ii, st. john xxiii, gianna molla, macrina, felicity, perpetua, martin luther king jr., stein, john, j.s. bach, matthew, mark, william wilberforce, john newton, dunstan, thomas more, thomas beckett, j.r.r. tolkein, and st. john of shanghai.

   1. also madeleine l'engle and mother teresa.

4. Soren Kierkegaard, Existentialist Philosopher

5. I nominate Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple, first Episcopal bishop of Minnesota, humanitarian, and an advocate for Native Americans; Rev Dr Martin Luther King; Henry Nouwen; Dorothy Day; Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of Special Olympics and an advocate of people with intellectual disabilities; and Mahalia Jackson, the voice of Gospel music.

6. I nominate Saint Jude

7. Saint Michael

8. I nominate Margery Kempe
   The Book of Margery Kempe, which is dated between 1436 and 1438, is Norfolk woman Kempe’s story of her life, dictated to a scribe, and is widely seen as the first autobiography in English. The mother of 14 children, Kempe became a chaste pilgrim after experiencing religious visions, travelling to Jerusalem and Santiago de Compostela while expressing her devotion to Christ through weeping and loud cries.

   “It’s wonderful that the British Library has loaned the unique manuscript of The Book of Margery Kempe to the This is a Voice exhibition – not only did Kempe describe hearing voices and sounds but she also crafted a distinctive voice for herself. It is very touching that the Julian of Norwich manuscript is displayed alongside that of Margery Kempe: the two women – who can also legitimately be called two of the earliest women writers in English – met in Norwich, probably in the year 1413,” said Anthony Bale, professor of medieval studies at Birkbeck, University of London, who recently edited and translated The Book of Margery Kempe for Oxford University Press.

9. A nomination for Anabaptist saints: Menno Simons and Dirk Willems (Though there might not be a lot of saintly kitsch to be found).

10. More saints to consider:

    Susanna Wesley, Maria Skobtsova, William Wilberforce, & Eric Liddell.

11. Brother Lawrence, Henri Nouwen, George Whitefield, Francis Asbury

12. I would like to nominate Elizabeth Seton, Martin Luther King, Moses,and Mother Teresa

13. Thomas Cranmer, Thurgood Marshall, John Wesley

14. Fr. Solanus Casey, OFM Cap. Hildegard of Bingen

15. I nominate Fred Rogers....and his dog.

    Somebody had to do it.

    1. I second the nomination of Fred Rogers!

16. I hope this is a voting mechanism - could not find any other nomination/submit button.
    Please, please, please, take Mother Teresa's name out of the realm of possible sainthood. The R.C. might have been fooled about her so-called saintly-ness, but let's keep our anglican heads here. Teresa kept her patients in sqalour in spite of all the money she received. She also refused to comfort or minister to any dying patient who did not turn from their own religion and join the R.C. church. I found this quote: "The controversy surrounding Mother Teresa, ..., is far from new. Her saintly reputation was gained for aiding Kolkata's poorest of the poor, yet it was undercut by persistent allegations of misuse of funds, poor medical treatments and religious evangelism in the institutions she founded."
    Why Pope Francis endorses this woman is a mystery - up to now he has had my utmost respect.

    1. When my husband and I visited one of Sr. Teresa's facilities in 1989, we saw a little boy sitting on the floor, tied to the leg of a bed, weeping. He was tied with a rope, not medical soft restraints. When it became obvious that this disturbed us, he was untied - I don't know for how long. His smile was radiant. I know, different cultures, different practices, but still ...

17. Sorry, I mis-spelled squalour - can the 'u' after 'q' be inserted?

18. I also nominate Addis Mae Collins, Denise Mc Nair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley-The 4 Little Girls, victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, AL, 1963. Holy Innocents of the Civil Rights Era; and Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson/Rachel Robinson-whose cultural influence goes far beyond being the first African American to integrate Major League Baseball. Jackie spoke truth to power risking his livelihood and, often, his life. He did so with such dignity and grace. Rachel was Jack's shelter in the turbulent racial storm. Her strength, conviction, and courage helped Jackie compete heroically on a racially tilted playing field. Furthermore, she has continued and furthered Jack's legacy of education,social justice, and leadership through the founding of the Jackie Robinson Foundation. This dynamic tandem provides further evidence of the power of love over hate, good over evil, believing in "we" and not just "me."

19. Pauli Murray
    Sam Shoemaker
    Moses of Ethiopia
    Teresa of Avila
    Jude (Thaddeus)
    Juan Diego
    Edward Bouvier Pusey
    Thomas Cranmer
    Thomas More
    Thomas Aquinas
    Thomas the apostle

20. Three nominations:
    1. St. Patrick, a man ahead of his time, probably the first person to write about the evils of slavery, and a man who respected women
    2. Dr. Wilfred Grenfell, who asked himself what Jesus would do if Jesus had been a medical doctor, and devoted his life to bringing the first modern health care to the fishers of Newfoundland and Labrador about a hundred years ago
    3. Margaret Gaffney Haughery, born 1813 in County Leitrim, Ireland, died 1882 in New Orleans. A statue of "Our Margaret" in New Orleans is the first statue of a woman on public property erected in the USA. A poor, illiterate washerwoman, she became the owner of a very successful bakery, gave nearly all her fortune for the care of poor orphans in New Orleans, for whom she had great compassion, having been a poor and homeless orphan herself. Her husband and her only child died when she was still a young woman. She was truly a remarkable and saintly woman who deserves to be better known.

21. Jean Vanier, founder of L'Arche, homes for mentally challenged and volunteers, across the world;
    and St. Brother Andre of Montreal, a humble doorkeeper who initiated the building of the great St. Joseph's Oratory in Montreal - many miracles attributed to him, sainted last year.

22. I would like to nominate Charles Simeon. A good Evangelical Anglican.....plus...
    anyone who can be locked out of their church by angry wardens and parishioners and still not need anger management training is in my book a Saint. (He's also in Lesser Feasts/HolyWomenHolyMen/and God's roll call scroll/etc)

23. My nominees:
    Dr. Martin Luther (The German Reformist)
    Dr. Martin Luther King (known by all, and already nominated by some)
    Cesar Franck (19. Century french composer of wonderful Religious and Organ music)
    St Andrew (The Apostle)
    St Raphael (The Archangel)

24. My nominations are:
    Thomas Tallis
    Florence Nightingale
    Lassie

    1. So sweet! Lassie was a saint!

25. ST. CYPRIAN
    MOTHER TERESA

26. I nominate St. George, and Mr. Rogers.

27. I don't see two of my favorites, Saint Cecilia or Saint Jerome, on the list! Patron saints of music and librarians, respectively.

28. St. Dismas -- the patron saint of being in the right place at the right time!

29. St. Mary Ann of Jesus of Paredes

30. I nominate St. Cecelia