Today on the Episcopal Calendar is Innocent of Alaska, 1797–1879

                                              Psalm 69: 7

Let 

not 

those 

who 

hope

in you

be put to shame thorough me, Lord God 

of hosts; let not those who trust 

in you be disgraced because of me, O God of Israel 

    

_____ write these words on my heart____

Innocent of  Alaska, born  

Джон Вениаминов   a Russian missionary priest who became the first Orthodox Bishop in America. In time he became the metropolitan 

of Moscow and 
all Russia.