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Christian feast day: Absalom Jones (Episcopal Church (USA))

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Absalom Jones

American abolitionist (1746–1818)

Absalom Jones was an African-American abolitionist and clergyman who became prominent in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Disappointed at the racial discrimination he experienced in a local Methodist church, he founded the Free African Society with Richard Allen in 1787, a mutual aid…
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The Calendar of the Church Year

Calendar of saints in the Episcopal Church

The Calendar of the Church Year is the liturgical calendar of the United States Episcopal Church. It is found in the 1979 Book of Common Prayer and in Lesser Feasts and Fasts, with additions made at recent General Conventions.
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