The Jewish Reredos in the Anglo-Catholic Museum

The Evangelists was by <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87120980/henry-robert-percival" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">the end of Percival’s life </a>— he died at 49 of cirrhosis and anemia at his country estate in Chester County — in a changing neighborhood where demographic patterns did not support the ongoing existence of a parish of Protestant Episcopalians. Surviving financial records document a struggle to buy coal for heating, the use of the building for mission congregations of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/4402124483224280" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Italians</a> and <a href="http://mammana.org/bcp/polish1927/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Poles</a>, and a reluctance to close a church with no sustaining congregation. The role of the <a href="https://www.episcopalchurch.org/glossary/open-pulpit-canon-on/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Open Pulpit Secession</a> in depleting some of the local supply of celibate-ritualist clergy who had drawn some of their inspiration from a Percival who was unwilling “for health reasons” to follow them in pro-Roman directions was also part of the church’s demise. Percival was to be sure no McGarveyite; but <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McGarvey_(priest)" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">William McGarvey</a> was a Percivalist, and the large group of Episcopal clergy and nuns who became Roman Catholics under and around McGarvey had been incubated by the rector of the Church of the Evangelists. <a href="https://medium.com/@richard.mammana/the-jewish-reredos-in-the-anglo-catholic-museum-ceb0ef05a08f">Visit Now</a>