Reformed Anglicans

1 October.   Day of Remembrance: 1662 Book of Common Prayer:   Bishop Remigius & Apostle of the Franks Kiefer, James E.   “Remigius of Rheims, Bishop, Apostle of the Franks.”   Biographical Sketches.   N.d.   http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bio/257.html/   Accessed 27 May 2014. [Clotilda, Queen of the Franks (3 June 545)] A 1987 motion picture, "The Big Easy" (a nickname for the city of New Orleans), and a current (1996) television series of the same name based on it, have as the male lead a Cajun police detective named Remy McSwaine. In the first episode of the series (I am not sure of the film) we are informed that "Remy" is short for "Remington." I fear that this shows that the scriptwriters have not troubled to research Cajun culture. Remi is one of the three great national saints of France (the others are Denis (Dionysius) of Paris and Joan of Arc , or Joan the Maid (Jeanne la Pucelle)), and it is thoroughly natura...

1 October.   Day of Remembrance: 1662 Book of Common Prayer:   Bishop Remigius & Apostle of the Franks http://www.eskimo.com/~lhowell/bcp1662/notes/saints.html#Remigius Remigius , Bishop (of Rheims, A.D. 439-533, "St. Remi"), famous as the converter and baptizer of Clovis, anointing him at his coronation with the sacred oil, from which, as preserved at Rheims, all kings of France subsequently received unction. He became the Metropolitan of the Frankish Church, and died in extreme old age in 533. -- October 1st .