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Christian feast day: Florence Nightingale, Octavia Hill (Lutheran Church)
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Florence Nightingale
English founder of modern nursing (1820–1910)
Florence Nightingale was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople. She…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Octavia Hill
English social reformer (1838–1912)
Octavia Hill was an English social reformer and founder of the National Trust. Her main concern was the welfare of the inhabitants of cities, especially London, in the second half of the nineteenth century. Born into a family of radical thinkers and reformers with a strong…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Calendar of saints (Lutheran)
Religious calendar
The Lutheran Church has, from the time of the Reformation, continued the remembrance of saints. The theological basis for this remembrance is understood as being connected to the words of the Epistle to the Hebrews 12:1. The Apology of the Augsburg Confession states that the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)