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Today is Florence Nightingale\u2019s birthday. The International Council of Nurses has been marking this day as International Nurses Day<\/a> since 1965.<\/p>\n

An English Unitarian within inclinations that anticipated in some ways contemporary Unitarian Universalism, Nightingale is most importantly generally considered the founder of modern nursing.<\/p>\n

As Longfellow wrote:<\/p>\n

Lo! in that hour of misery<\/span>
A lady with a lamp I see<\/span>
Pass through the glimmering gloom,<\/span>
And flit from room to room.<\/span><\/p>\n

(for biographical details see here<\/a>, for more on her theology look here<\/a>. And here\u2019s<\/a> an interesting sermon.<\/p>\n

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Today is Florence Nightingale\u2019s birthday. The International Council of Nurses has been marking this day as International Nurses Day since 1965. An English Unitarian within inclinations that anticipated in some ways contemporary Unitarian Universalism, Nightingale is most importantly generally considered the founder of modern nursing. As Longfellow wrote: Lo! in that hour of misery A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nFlorence Nightingale<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Today is Florence Nightingale's birthday. 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