The Episcopal church honors the Reverend James Otis Sargent Huntington with a feast on this day.
The good father was the founder of the Order of the Holy Cross, an independent Anglican monastic order that eventually aligned with the Benedictine rule.
A fascinating figure by himself, but if you include his father and his grandfather you get a remarkable spiritual lineage.
His father, the Reverend Frederick Dan Huntington, was a Unitarian minister who converted to Anglicanism and ended up as bishop of Central New York.
His grandfather, the Reverend Dan Huntington was a Unitarian minister.
I’ve long thought there’s a triple biography here that could be a very interesting exploration.
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