James Lloyd Breck
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James Lloyd Breck (June 27, 1818 – April 2, 1876) was a priest, educator and missionary of the Episcopal Church of the United States of America.
Breck was born near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended high school at the Flushing Institute, founded by William Augustus Muhlenberg, who inspired him to resolve at the age of sixteen to devote himself to missionary activity. In 1844, by then a priest, he went to the frontier of Wisconsin with two classmates, under the direction of Bishop Jackson Kemper, to found Nashotah House, intended as a monastic community, a seminary, and a center for theological work. It continues today as a seminary.[1]
In 1850 Breck moved to Minnesota where he founded schools for boys and girls, and the Seabury Divinity School at Faribault, Minnesota. He also began mission work among the Ojibwa.[2] On June 23, 1850, on top of Grandad Bluff, Father Breck celebrated the first Episcopal[3] Holy Communion in the La Crosse area.[4]
In 1867 he moved to Benicia, California to build another two institutions.[5] He died there in 1876.
He is commemorated on April 2 on the Episcopal calendar of saints.
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.nashotah/edu/about.htm
- ^ Seabury: About Seabury: Seabury's History
- ^ Goldstein, Norm, editor, Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law, 2000, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Perseus Publishing, pp. 84-85.
- ^ The Life of the Reverend James Lloyd Breck, D.D
- ^ 1850's - Athens of California
