Wednesday, January 25, 2006

sainthood for lawyers

If approved, [Thurgood] Marshall's name would be added to the Book of Lesser Feasts and Fasts, a primary worship book for the New York-based denomination [Episcopalians if you are keeping scoring at home]. A feast day in his honor would be celebrated May 17, the anniversary of his victory in Brown v. Board of Education.

In the landmark 1954 case, attorney Marshall argued that the high court should overturn racial segregation in public schools. He was named a Supreme Court justice in 1967.

Criteria for Episcopal sainthood include whether the nominee was an "extraordinary or even heroic" servant of God and whether the person served humanity on behalf of Christ, according to the worship book.

Among other contemporary Episcopal saints are the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Florence Nightingale.

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