Rita SingerI've just sent in my draft to the #Bywgraffiadur about the Indian medical missionary Shoshi Mukhi Dass (1868-1921). More likely than not, it will get whittled down, so this is a good way to preserve the "director's cut".
If foreign missionary history is your thing, have a look.
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IAN HAMILTON BURTON (Archimandrite Barnabas) (1915 - 1996), Orthodox priest
'In 1956, Burton visited Paris, where he met Père Denis, an Orthodox monk who followed the western rite. The spiritual friendship between the two men had a decisive effect on Burton's life. Under Denis's influence Burton came to see in the Orthodox Church the continuation of the undivided Church founded by Christ. In 1960 he was received into the Orthodox Church and ordained priest a few months later, becoming the first Welsh Orthodox priest since the Great Schism of 1054. It was at this point that he took the monastic name Barnabas and was given the title Archimandrite. He spent some time in Paris, reciting the Benedictine office daily and joining in Byzantine rite services. Eventually he was to move from Western Rite Orthodoxy to the Byzantine Rite.' -- Ruth Gooding
https://biography.wales/article/s15-BURT-HAM-1915
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GAINOR HUGHES (1745 - 1780), fasting woman, was baptised #OnThisDay 1745.
'Contemporary interest in Gainor Hughes centred on her fast of almost six years' duration, during which time she refused sustenance other than spring water sweetened with a small amount of sugar or occasionally with a drop of weak ale. The fast originated, it was suggested in a 1778 report in the Chester Chronicle, in an illness which led to three days' loss of consciousness, and to a subsequent repulsion towards the odour of meat. Unsurprisingly, her physical condition eventually reflected this shortage of nutrition: the ballad-singer Grace Roberts referred to the weakness of her body and to the 'great pain' which she suffered. It was not her physical appearance but her spiritual life which most engaged her contemporaries, however.' -- Ffion Mair Jones
https://biography.wales/article/s14-HUGH-GAI-1745
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#WomensHistory #FaithHistory #Bywgraffiadur #Wales
'Contemporary interest in Gainor Hughes centred on her fast of almost six years' duration, during which time she refused sustenance other than spring water sweetened with a small amount of sugar or occasionally with a drop of weak ale. The fast originated, it was suggested in a 1778 report in the Chester Chronicle, in an illness which led to three days' loss of consciousness, and to a subsequent repulsion towards the odour of meat. Unsurprisingly, her physical condition eventually reflected this shortage of nutrition: the ballad-singer Grace Roberts referred to the weakness of her body and to the 'great pain' which she suffered. It was not her physical appearance but her spiritual life which most engaged her contemporaries, however.' -- Ffion Mair Jones
https://biography.wales/article/s14-HUGH-GAI-1745
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#WomensHistory #FaithHistory #Bywgraffiadur #Wales
Every day's a school day in which I am coming to grips with XML mark-up (disclaimer: I'm a complete newbie and have to learn it within a month of a colleague's departure). I've just published my first edited article for the #Bywgraffiadur and it makes me particularly proud to have contributed to our #DiversityProject by publishing Youhannah El Karey's biography, written by Genevieve Johnson-Smith.
