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Charles Martin (born 1942, New York City) is a poet, critic and translator. He grew up in the Bronx . He graduated from Fordham University and received his Ph.D. from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York . [ 1 ]
Titlepage to 1645 Poems, with frontispiece depicting Milton surrounded by four muses, designed by William Marshall. Milton's 1645 Poems is a collection, divided into separate English and Latin sections, of John Milton's youthful poetry in a variety of genres, including such notable works as An Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity, Comus and Lycidas.
For the litany, Cranmer drew heavily on both traditional and recent sources ranging from John Chrysostom to Martin Luther, the bulk of the material coming from the Sarum Rite. Much of the work of synthesizing these sources was originally done by William Marshall in his Lutheran -oriented primer prayer book , the Goodly Primer of 1535. [ 1 ]
The 1559 Book of Common Prayer, [note 1] also called the Elizabethan prayer book, is the third edition of the Book of Common Prayer and the text that served as an official liturgical book of the Church of England throughout the Elizabethan era. Elizabeth I became Queen of England in 1558 following the death of her Catholic half-sister Mary I.
Janet Geddes from A History of Protestantism. Janet "Jenny" Geddes (c. 1600 – c. 1660) was a Scottish market-trader in Edinburgh who is alleged to have thrown a stool at the head of the minister in St Giles' Cathedral in objection to the first public use of the Church of Scotland's revised version of the Book of Common Prayer, the 1637 Scottish Prayer Book.
In the prayer book, the 1544 Litany was used and Holy Communion celebrated on these days. [35] The prayer book also included the sanctorale or calendar of saints with collects and scripture readings appropriate for the day. [34] However, it was reduced from 181 to 25 days. Only New Testament saints were commemorated, with the exception of All ...
John Henry Newman CO (21 February 1801 – 11 August 1890) was an English Catholic theologian, academic, philosopher, historian, writer, and poet. He was previously an Anglican priest and after his conversion became a cardinal .
Edward Sparke (c. 1610/11 [1] - 1692) was an orthodox Anglican English clergyman and devotional writer in prose and poetry, who despite being ejected from his living during the English Rebellion survived to see his work and teaching gain a wide currency during the Restoration period. [2]