{"id":140877,"date":"2025-10-29T06:56:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T10:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=140877"},"modified":"2025-10-29T18:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T22:17:08","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-james-hannington-and-the-martyrs-of-uganda-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=140877","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of James Hannington and the Martyrs of Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><p>Precious in thy sight, O Lord, is the death of thy saints, whose faithful witness, by thy providence, hath its great reward: We give thee thanks for thy martyrs James Hannington and his companions, who purchased with their blood a road unto Uganda for the proclamation of the Gospel; and we pray that with them we also may obtain the crown of righteousness which is laid up for all who love the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ; who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.<\/p><\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">29 Oct 1885, James Hannington, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cmsmission?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@cmsmission<\/a> missionary &amp; first Anglican bishop of East Africa, speared to death in Uganda. Born Hurstpierpoint. Studied <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OrielOxford?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@OrielOxford<\/a>, 1874 ordained. 1882-3 in E Africa but left due to illness, returned 1885. &#39;Blood of the martyrs is seed of church&#39;. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yAX0ffvsoo\">pic.twitter.com\/yAX0ffvsoo<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Revd Nicholas Pye (@RevdPye) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RevdPye\/status\/1983547942402490709?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 29, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Precious in thy sight, O Lord, is the death of thy saints, whose faithful witness, by thy providence, hath its great reward: We give thee thanks for thy martyrs James Hannington and his companions, who purchased with their blood a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=140877\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,396,438,188,520],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-church-of-uganda","category-death-burial-funerals","category-spiritualityprayer","category-uganda-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140892,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140877\/revisions\/140892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}