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  • Ready To Celebrate St. Thurgood's Day? (Episcopal Diocese to saint Thurgood Marchall)

    01/25/2006 7:54:41 AM PST · by NYer · 67 replies · 1,281+ views
    NBC4 ^ | January 25, 2006
    WASHINGTON -- Could Episcopalians soon be celebrating the Feast of St. Thurgood?The Episcopal Diocese of Washington is to consider a resolution this Friday recommending that the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall be considered a saint. A press release from the diocese said: "If the resolution passes, and is approved by consecutive meetings of the Church's national convention, Episcopal churches will have the opportunity to celebrate May 17 as Marshall's feast day." On that date in 1954, Marshall, who was later to become the first black Supreme Court justice, won the Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation case. He...