St James' Church is an Anglican parish church in Sydney, Australia. Named in honour of St James the Great, it is the oldest extant church building in the city's inner region and has been in continuous service since it was consecrated in February 1824. Its original ministry was to the early convict population of Sydney as well as to the administrative élite. In succeeding centuries, the church has maintained a special role in the city's religious, civic and musical life as well as close associations with the legal and medical professions. The church building was designed in the style of a Georgian town church by the transported convict architect Francis Greenway. Worship is in a style commonly found in the High Church and moderate Anglo-Catholic traditions of Anglicanism, in contrast to the majority of churches in its diocese where services are generally in the style associated with Low Church. The teaching at St James' has a more liberal perspective than most churches in the diocese on issues of gender and the ordination of women. Part of a historical precinct, it is listed on the Register of the National Estate and has been described as one of the world's 80 greatest man-made treasures.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1261:
Alexios Strategopoulos led the Nicaean forces of Michael VIII Palaiologos to recapture Constantinople, re-establish the Byzantine Empire, and end the Latin Empire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexios_Strategopoulos
1814:
War of 1812: In present-day Niagara Falls, Ontario, the United States and Great Britain engaged in Battle of Lundy's Lane, one of the deadliest ever fought on Canadian soil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lundy%27s_Lane
1909:
French aviator Louis Blériot crossed the English Channel in a heavier-than-air flying machine, flying from near Calais, France, to Dover, England. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Bl%C3%A9riot
1978:
Louise Brown, the world's first baby conceived through in vitro fertilisation, was born in Oldham, England. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_vitro_fertilisation
2010:
WikiLeaks published 75,000 classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_War_documents_leak
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
eviscerate: 1. (transitive) To disembowel, to remove the viscera. 2. (transitive) To destroy or make ineffectual or meaningless. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eviscerate
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 What counts most is holding on. The growth of a train of thought is not a direct forward flow. There is a succession of spurts separated by intervals of stagnation, frustration, and discouragement. If you hold on, there is bound to come a certain clarification. The unessential components drop off and a coherent, lucid whole begins to take shape. --Eric Hoffer https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eric_Hoffer