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The funeral sermon is a mixed genre. [4] Patrick Collinson used a "cuckoo in the nest" metaphor to describe the Protestant reformer's predicament when funeral sermons were given: classical rhetoric of exemplars was used, while radical evangelicals could not accept the sermon form as suited to the lives of the godly. [5]
Portrait plaque of U.S. president William McKinley, labelled "It is God's Way – Lead, Kindly Light", c. 1901. The largest mining disaster in the Durham Coalfield in England was at West Stanley Colliery, known locally as "The Burns Pit", when 168 men and boys lost their lives as the result of two underground explosions at 3:45pm on Tuesday 16 February 1909.
Funeral services for Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush, and Jimmy Carter were held at the cathedral. [93] William Howard Taft had his funeral at All Souls' Church, Unitarian, where he was a congregant. [94] John F. Kennedy's requiem mass was held at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, as he was a Roman ...
Sep 8, 2024; Oldmans Township, New Jersey, USA; A cyclist rides on Pennsville Auburn Road past a roadside memorial near the site where Columbus Blue Jackets hockey player Johnny Gaudreau and his ...
Thomas Cromwell in 1532/1533 by Hans Holbein the Younger. Following the secession of the Church of England from the jurisdiction of the Church of Rome in 1530, and the designation of the monarch, Henry VIII of England, as the chief power in both the civil and ecclesiastical estates of the realm, it was needed for the establishment of the English Reformation that the reformed Christian ...
Little is known about the origin of the homilies or their intended audience. In the assessment of D. G. Scragg, the manuscript is in origin a collection, put together, perhaps over a period of time, from a number of sources ... the scribes took care to put together a book which followed a preconceived design, following the chronology of the church year, and they perhaps took individual items ...
Philip Henry was born at Whitehall, London on 24 August 1631 and named after, Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, in whose service his father, John Henry had been. Philip Henry was the eldest son of John Henry, keeper of the orchard at Whitehall Palace. His father's work as a courtier provided a stable income for the family. His mother was ...
The current Spinners lineup performs at the funeral of the group's cofounder Henry Fambrough at St. Stephen A.M.E. Church in Detroit on Feb. 17, 2024. From left: C.J. Jefferson, Marvin Taylor ...