James Lloyd Breck - RLJLB
by Br Robert Lentz OFM
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James Lloyd Breck - RLJLB
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Br Robert Lentz OFM
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Painting - 22k Gold & Acrylic
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When James Lloyd Breck was a seminarian, the Episcopal Church was an eastern denomination, with very little missionary outreach into the vast territories to the west. Responding to a call for help from Bishop Jackson Kemper, Breck set out in 1841 for a life of self-denial on the frontier. Inspired by the Oxford Movement, he believed that the ancient Christian model of a monastic core-group with a Bishop at its center was the best way to organize missionary work. At Nashotah, Wisconsin, he helped found such an institution. Beginning as a brotherhood to evangelize the country around it, Nashotah House soon became a seminary to train missionary priests.
Moving west to Minnesota, Breck began a mission among the Chippewa at Gull Lake, and opened another missionary center at Faribault. There he founded schools, including Seabury Divinity School, and prepared the way for the establishment of the first cathedral in the Episcopal Church. His last years were spent in Benicia, California, where he opened yet another mission with schools and a circuit of preaching stations. He died there on March 30, 1876, after a brief illness.
It was said of Breck, "The Master’s word, 'Go ye into all the world,' was in his ears; its force and meaning in his heart. And so he went into the wilderness, like John the Baptist and other heroes and martyrs of the church, whither the Spirit led him." An Archbishop of Canterbury called him "The Apostle of the Wilderness," and this title is written in Greek above his shoulders in this icon. He is shown holding the Red Chapel, the original chapel at Nashotah House. Today, his work continues through institutions, which he founded: two seminaries, a school, numerous parishes, and extensive work among Native Americans. He is commemorated in the calendar of the Episcopal Church.
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