Tuesday, November 1, 2011

All Saints

Albrecht Dürer, The Landauer Altarpiece, commissioned by a wealthy Nuremberg merchant Martin Landauer (who appears in the painting introduced by a cardinal on the lower left) for the All Saints chapel attached to a hospital for indigent elderly men which he founded; Landauer would end his days in that hospital.



Here are some of my favorite saints (official and unofficial). What are yours?



St. Francis of Assisi




St. Mary Magdalene




Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.




Dietrich Bonhoeffer




Oscar Romero




Julian of Norwich




Mychal Judge




Jonathan Swift




Benedict of Nursia




Mahalia Jackson




Deacon Thomas Clarkson





Frederick Denison Maurice





John Wesley




Live this life and do what ever is done in a spirit of thanksgiving. Abandon attempts to achieve security, they are futile. Give up the search for wealth, it is demeaning. Quit the search for salvation, it is selfish. And come to comfortable rest in the certainty that those who participate in this life with an attitude of thanksgiving will receive its full promise. -- St. Benedict



And being the Universalist heretic that I am, here are some very unofficial people, including some non-Christians, who I would consider saintly.


Albert Camus




Josephine Baker





Martin Buber





William Blake





Paul Tillich






Buddha






Michael Callen





Mohandas Gandhi




Chief Joseph




Harriet Tubman




Yitzakh Rabin
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5 comments:

  1. JCFNovember 1, 2011 at 4:16 PM

    Great post, Doug---a blessed Feast of All Saints to you! [That's right, a FEAST. Must get some appropriate ice cream for the occasion! :-)]

    I confess, have no idea who Deacon Thomas Clarkson is. [Am fuzzy re a few others]

    Don't much care for the Durer. This is more my style (hat-tip Padre Mickey)

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  2. CounterlightNovember 1, 2011 at 4:57 PM

    Thanks,

    as for the paintings, chaconne a son gout.

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  3. TLHNovember 4, 2011 at 8:50 AM

    This is sort of late, but I'll toss it in anyway:

    Miep Gies, one of the people who helped the Frank and van Pels (whom Anne named "van Daans" in her diary) families as well as Fritz Pfeffer (whom Anne called "Dussel" in her diary) hide in the Secret Annexe in Amsterdam. Miep passed away in January of 2010, if I remember correctly.

    Tracie

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  4. TracieNovember 4, 2011 at 8:56 AM

    PS: Clarkson was one of the abolitionists along with Wilberforce, etc, was he not? Do I have the correct Clarkson?

    Tracie

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  5. CounterlightNovember 4, 2011 at 4:10 PM

    Yes, that's the one.

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