Archive for February, 2009
Saturday, February 28th, 2009
ANNA JULIA HAYWOOD COOPER
ANNA JULIA HAYWOOD COOPER
EDUCATOR
(28 February 1964)
Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (August 10, c1859- February 27, 1964). Educator, advocate and scholar. Born in Raleigh, North Carolina to an enslaved woman and a white man, presumably her mother’s master, Anna Julia was an academically gifted child and received a scholarship to attend St. Augustine Normal School and Collegiate […]
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Saturday, February 28th, 2009
Oswald, bishop
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Saturday, February 28th, 2009
Martyrs of Alexandria
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Saturday, February 28th, 2009
On This Day
0870 8th Ecumenical council ends in Constantinople.
0870 The Fourth Constantinople Council closed, under Pope Adrian II in the West and Emperor Basil I in the East. The council had condemned iconoclasm, and became the last ecumenical council held in the Eastern Mediterranean area.
1066 Westminster Abbey opens
1638 Scottish Presbyterians sign National Convenant, […]
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Commemoration of St Hilarius, pope (461-68), calendar reformer (non-leap years)
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Saturday, February 28th, 2009
Feast of St Romanus
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Saturday, February 28th, 2009
Blessed Daniel Brottier
Daniel spent most of his life in the trenches—one way or another.
Born in France in 1876, Daniel was ordained in 1899 and began a teaching career. That didn’t satisfy him long. He wanted to use his zeal for the gospel far beyond the classroom. He joined the missionary Congregation of the Holy Spirit, which sent […]
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Saturday, February 28th, 2009
I Have Been At A Vestry Retreat All Day …
… therefore, very few posts.
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Saturday, February 28th, 2009
I Love These!!!
This image provided by NASA shows the Comet Lulin as it was passing through the constellation Libra when Swift imaged it. This view merges the Swift data with a Digital Sky Survey image of the star field. While waiting for high-energy outbursts and cosmic explosions, NASA’s Swift Gamma-ray Explorer satellite is monitoring Comet Lulin as […]