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Scope of Project ===Seventy-five years before the emancipation of the slaves and one hundred fifty years before women began voting in the United States, the Shakers were practicing social, gender, economic, and spiritual equality for all members. Yet, possibly because the Shakers were celibate and did not marry or bear children, their individual histories have been generally overlooked in the g...
A Christian martyr is a person who is killed for following Christianity. # Donald 'the martyr' Cargill (1619 - 1681)# Saint Polycarp of Smyrna (80 - 167)# Saint Lawrence (210 - 258)# Anne Askew, Martyr (1521 - 1546)# Thomas Hobart, of Plumstead (1610 - 1681)# Saint Jacques Buteux, SJ (1599 - 1652)# Saint Emmeran de Ratisbonne  ( - c652)
Churches of South Africa ' Christianity in South Africa The first Christian Mass, celebrated perhaps in late December 1487 or early January 1488, was celebrated on the island of the Holy Cross (named as such by Diaz), just off Port Elizabeth. '''''''''' * When it was started? What congregation? In the early years it was mostly the Dutch Reformed Church better known as either the Neder...
The Pomorian soglasiye (Согласие, which means "creed" or "confession") is a group of bespopovtsy ("priestless") Old Believers, who abandoned the practice of receiving "runaway priests" after the death of the last pre-Raskol (schism) priests of the Russian Orthodox Church. In the absence of the priesthood, they began to elect literate laity to conduct services. The Pomorian creed was formed in ...