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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

The Seventh Day of Christmas, New Year’s Eve Day and, in the Episcopal Church, the commemoration of Samuel Ajayi Crowther (c.1807 -1891) *

                                   Psalm 48:7, 2 Corinthians 5:16


AS we have 
heard, 
so we have 
seen…. 
From 
now on,
therefore, 
we regard 
no one from 
a human point of view...

* Samuel Ajayi Crowther (c.1807 -1891) Born in Nigeria, as a child, Samuel was sold to Portuguese slave traders during a Nigerian civil war, but then was intercepted by a British anti-slavery patrol. Fast forward to in 1864 when was consecrated the first African Bishop to Nigeria, “the countries of West Africa beyond the limits of of the Queen’s domains.”   Holy  Women, Holy Men.... 

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