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Elizabeth Catherine Ferard (22 February 1825- 18 April 1883) was a Deaconess credited with revitalizing the deaconess order in the Anglican Communion. She is now remembered in the Calendar of saints in some parts of the Anglican Communion on either 3 or 18 July.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Deaconesses of the Church in Modern Times, compiled by Lawson Carter Rich (1907) )〕 ==Early life== Ferard was a gentlewoman from a prominent Huguenot family. Her father, Daniel Ferard (1788-1839), was a solicitor.〔Valerie Bonham, ‘Ferard, Elizabeth Catherine (1825–1883)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010 (accessed 17 Dec 2012 )〕 Archibald Tait, then Bishop of London and later Archbishop of Canterbury, encouraged Elizabeth Ferard's religious vocation, particularly her visit to deaconess communities in Germany after the death of her invalid mother in 1858.〔Blackmore, Henrietta (ed.). The Beginning of Women's Ministry: The Revival of the Deaconess in the 19th Century Church of England (Church of England Record Society No. 14) Boydell & Brewer, 2007.〕 Although St. Paul mentioned deaconesses at Cenchreae, and St. John Chrysostom considered the model appropriate for both sexes, deaconesses vanished for hundreds of years until revived when Theodor Fliedner founded a deaconess community among Lutherans in Kaiserswerth, Germany in 1836. Episcopalians in Baltimore, Maryland, started similar work in circa 1855. The nineteenth century deaconess movement involved women living in community while carrying out traditional deacon ministries, especially teaching and serving the poor in industrializing cities. In 1858, Ferard visited the deaconess community at Kaiserswerth. There, deaconesses taught girls and ministered to the sick; the institutions became as an alternative, practical and religious lifestyle for women, without becoming a nun. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elizabeth Ferard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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