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Resolution Number: 1985-A092
Title: Add Commemorations and Request a Report on a Church Calendar Revision
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred As Amended
Final Text:

Resolved, That the Calendar of the Church Year (Book of Common Prayer, pages 19-30) be revised by the addition of certain commemorations, as follows:

January 12 Aelred, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167
September 1 David Pendleton Oakerhater, Deacon and Missionary of the Cheyenne, 1931
September 9 Constance, Nun, and her Companions, commonly called "The Martyrs of Memphis," 1878
October 14 Teresa of Avila, Nun, 1582
November 20 Edmund, King of East Anglia, and Martyr, 870
November 25 James Otis Sargent Huntington, Priest and Monk, 1935
November 28 Kamehameha and Emma, King and Queen of Hawaii, 1863, 1885;

and be it further

Resolved, That the process by which additional Days of Commemoration are added to the Liturgical Calendar of the Church be referred to the Standing Liturgical Commission during the coming triennium for a report to the next General Convention containing suggested guidelines that are clear and detailed, by which new names are added in the future to the Days of Commemoration.

Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Anaheim, 1985 (New York: General Convention, 1986), p. 587.