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Saint of the Week: Edith Cavell 
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
"Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone," said our featured saint for the week Edith Cavell. Cavell was a woman of intense faith who treated soldiers on both sides of World War I. She was arrested and shot by firing squad for her ministry.
Saint of the Week: William Tyndale 
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
William Tyndale was famously a translator of the Bible into English. Tyndale's translations were the first English Scriptures to draw directly from Hebrew and Greek texts, the first English translation to take advantage of the printing press, the first of the new English Bibles of the Reformation, and the first English translation to use Jehovah ("Iehouah") as God's name. His life's effort, however, was seen as threatening to the powers-that-be, and he was eventually executed in 1536.
Saint of the Week: Anna Alexander 
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Our featured saint for the week is Anna Ellison Butler Alexander, daughter of emancipated enslaved parents who became the first woman of color to be consecrated as a deaconess in The Episcopal Church. Despite racial prejudice even within the church and her own diocese, she persevered and flourished, serving the Diocese of Georgia all but two years of her adult life.
Saint of the Week: Dag Hammarskjöld 
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Saint of the Week: Catherine of Genoa 
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Saint of the Week: Élie Naud 
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Facts and Methods: Lancelot Andrewes and Why I'm an Episcopalian 
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
Rev. Kevin Laskowski explores the Anglican theologian Lancelot Andrewes and why he's an Episcopalian.
Saints of the Week: Thomas Gallaudet and Henry Winter Syle 
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
Saint of the Week: St. Jude 
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

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