985 comments on “Nominations Open!”

1. I know some of these are already nominated and I add my "yes" to them. Some may have been but I didn't have time to look at the whole list. My nominees are:
   Fred Rogers
   Martin Luther
   Abraham Lincoln
   Gerard Manley Hopkins -- 19th century British poet and priest
   John Woolman He was a Quaker in the 18th century whose work led to the Quakers abolition of slavery as the first group in America to do that. He also did good work with the native Americans and with sailors on merchant ships (a group subject to deplorable conditions and piracy). I have nominated him every year. One of the lesser names in our history of the fight against slavery but a very great man.

2. Father John of Kronstadt

3. Anther nomination: Anne Hutchinson (1591-1643), Puritan of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who held and led Bible studies in her house (not permitted, since she was a woman), was part of the Antinomian Controversy, put on trial, excommunicated and banished, moving with her family and supporters to what became Rhode Island. She had a very sad end, not that many years later, the details of which can be found by anyone interested --- or by everyone reading Lent Madness if she is chosen to be among the 2017 saints!

4. I second the nomination of Ida B. Wells. A teacher, journalist, writer, she wrote the truth about lynching and put her own life on the line. She worked for the advancement of women and equal justice in the law.

5. Hannah Grier Coomes, founder of Sisters of St. John the Divine, 1921

   Mollie Brant (Konwatsijajenni), Matron among the Mowhaks, 17956.

6. Brother Andre of Montreal.

7. Watchman Nee
   and
   Fenelon

8. Artemisia Bowden -developed St. Philips College, San Antonio, Texas. She just became a saint last year. Stepped out in faith in 1902 to travel from NC to Texas at the request of Bishop Johnson. Amazing woman!

9. Elizabeth Lange, Founder of the Oblate Sisters in the US, the first black order which was founded in the 1830s during slavery to educate freed slaves, care of orphans and nursing the ill during cholera epidemic in Baltimore.

10. See the April 13, 2016, issue of "Christian Century." The article by Philip Jenkins, "Making saints in Africa" includes many African martyrs worthy of nomination. "Yet the continent is profoundly underrepresented in its umber of canonized saints, and rising churches ae struggling to achieve proper recognition."

11. Vincent de Paul (Holy Women, Holy Men p. 607)
    Elizabeth Seton (HW, HM p. 157)

12. Martin Luther King, Jr.

13. Respectfully, I would like to nominate Joel Emmanuel Hägglund -- better known as Joe Hill, martyr.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hill

    The psalmist celebrates Joe's life:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8Kxq9uFDes

14. I nominate The Rev. Hiriam Kano from Nebraska. He is the first Asian American on our calendar. Days after the attack of Peril Harbor, he was put in custody by the FBI on the steps of his church and taken to an Internment Camp where he continued offering his sacramental and pastoral ministry. He was a strong advocate for Immigrant rights.

15. Saint Swithun! Depicted with a bridge in his hand and eggs at his feet. (He restored them to wholeness after bridge builders broke them.) If it rains on his feast day, legend says it will rain for forty days afterwards. He requested to be buried outside the Cathedral so raindrops from the eaves would fall upon his grave. He is invoked in time of drought. Perhaps this is why people wanting an excuse to hang out in a bar say. "I'm celebrating Saint Swithun's Day!" Fascinating saint! (In my humble opinion.)

16. I nominate Pasqual Baylon, patron saint of cooks and kitchens, sheep and shepherds! Canonized by the French pope in Avignon France. Worshiped in small enclaves in the new world, such a New Mexico and Mexico.

17. Telemachus, martyr and hermit, who singlehandedly ended the gladiator games.

18. Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, Peter, and Hildegard of Bingen are my picks!

19. San Calogero of Sicily, a saint of the early church in both the Catholic and Eastern churches. He has many legends that attach to him. and he is, by tradition in any event, a saint of color.

    1. I would like to nominate Judge Samuel Sewall who is the only Salem Witch Trial judge who repented publicly of his part in the trials. After his public confession, he spent the rest of his life in seeking redemption and because of this wrote one of the first anti-slavery traits in America; became an advocate for better treatment of Native Americans, and an advocate for better treatment of women in Puritan America. His descendant, Eve LaPlante, wrote a fascinating book on him "Salem witch judge" which tells his amazing story. I don't think he is in any church calendar, but he should be!

20. I put forward for nomination:
    Sao Padre Pio de Pietrelcina
    interesting and inspiring life story culminating in feast day Sept 23
    patron of civil defense volunteers and adoloscents
    (our young people need all the help they can get!),
    AND some sources also list him as patron of stress relief and January blues (!!!)
    His great advise: "Pray, hope , and don't worry."

21. St. Edith Stein AKA St Tgeresa of the Cross
    Martin de Tours

22. I have been in the SEEL program all year in Portland (Ignatian spirituality), so I feel honor bound to nominate Ignatius of Loyola. (As a Jesuit, though, I feel I've read an awful lot by Teilhard de Chardin this year. If Teilhard gets the nod, perhaps he should be paired against Gerard Manley Hopkins.) Yes, Dorothy Day. Although if this really is a group of modernist social workers, then perhaps Dorothy Day will follow in the footsteps of Frances Perkins and sweep, although I'm willing to take that chance. LOVE the idea of Michael the Archangel in the mix, although I fear he will sweep the boards. Shouldn't he be paired with St. George of England, who also slew a dragon? Yes, J.S. Bach!!! Pair him with Handel. Play the soundtrack of "Messiah" all during Lent Madness. Gandhi. I'm tempted to say pair him with Mohammed. I'd love to see Mohammed here, although I'm not sure that would be understood as an ecumenical gesture. Can't wait until Oscar Romero is eligible again. Rilke, Rilke, and Rilke again. I do notice a slight bifurcation in our choices between social activists and martyrs. So let me just add Dante and Chaucer, and perhaps Chaucer can accompany us one of these days on our annual "posting" to "Canterbury."

23. I nominate St. Fiacre, patron saint of gardeners.

24. John the Baptist
    St. Anna
    St. Photine
    St. Paul
    St. Mark
    Hugh of Lincoln
    Aelred of Rievaulx
    St. John of the Cross
    Evelyn Underhill

25. 1 - The Rev. Pauli Murray, civil rights lawyer and first African American woman ordained in The Episcopal Church.
    2 - Anne Bradstreet, Puritan, first published poet in North America with great things to say about her relationship with the Divine. Especially in her undated letter to her children.
    3 - Jonathan Myrick Daniels, martyr for civil rights, Holy Women, Holy Men, p. 526. I produced a news story about his recognition at the 1991 General Convention for KPFA radio. As I recall, it was the fastest anyone had been added to the list (then “Lesser Feasts and Fasts”).
    4 - Archbishop Janani Luwum, martyred in 1977 by Idi Amin. Holy Women, Holy Men, p. 228.
    Mondo thank yous for LentMadness. This was the first year I participated and I thoroughly enjoyed it (and learned a lot).

26. Corrie Ten Boom I may not be a great speller but she rocked in the prayer. Thank God for all things even lice

27. I nominate Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne. I have always been inspired by the stories of his relationship with the local king, and also with the poor.

28. John Wesley

29. I can't believe that Eglantyne Jebb has not been nominated. A remarkable woman, she founded Save the Children in response tot he plight of children after the First World War, and wrote the document on which the UN Declaration of the Right s of the Child is based. She was arrested in Trafalgar Square for handing out leaflets depicting starving Austrian children. She defended herself in court, and although found guilty, the Crown Prosecutor publically paid her costs. Remembered in the Church of England on 17th December.
    I would also like to nominate Hilda of Whitby,
    and Adomnan of Iona, who wrote Columba's biography and the Law of the Innocents, the first document designed to guarentee the safety of non combatants in war.

30. They have been proposed, but I would second the nominations of
    John Muir
    Jonathan Daniels
    People really need to know more about these two people on account of their importance for earth care and for racism.

    Thank you,

    Charles