Today in the Anglican Communion we give thanks for the life and witness of Florence Li Tim-Oi (1907-1992) the first woman to be ordained a purist in this Communion.

                    from Isaiah (48:17)

Thus says the Lord, your rede-emer,
the
holy one of Israel:
  I am the Lord your God
    who teaches you for your
      own good,  who leads  you
            in the way you should go

Born in Hong Kong in 1907,  Li-TIm Oi means “beloved daughter,” she died in Canada on Feb-ruary 26, 199.2  We generally commemorate people on the anniver-sary of their death, but because of its signif-icance to the Commun-ion, this date celebrates the occasion of her ordination which occurred during, (and really because of) World War 2, on the January 25, 
1944,  the Feast of the Conversion of Saul of Tarsus. In 1949 the Communists came to power. From 1959-1974, during the  Cultural Revolution,  all the  churches were closed and she was forced to work first in on a farm and then in a factory, from which work she was allowed to retire in 1974. She was allowed to visit family in Canada in 1979 and finally moved there and was licensed as a priest in the Diocese of Montreal and then Toronto. She died in 1992 at the age of 84.  (as the info at the right says,  thanks to Holy Women, Holy Men for most of my biographical info…)