For more on the founding of St Andrew's, see the church's website for a history of the English Church in Moscow, written in 1999 by Jean Coussmaker, wife of Canon Chad Coussmaker, the first permanent post-1917 Moscow chaplain (serving 1993-99): moscowanglican.org/a-history-of-st-andrews/

Peabody's estate in Westminster on Abbey Orchard St was built in 1882 under a slum clearance scheme

In medieval times, the orchard of Westminster Abbey had stood there but by the late C19th, the area was 'an unhealthy maze of narrow alleys & courtyards'

peabodygroup.org.uk/about-us/our-history/

Charles Booth's 1889 map of Westminster shows the streets coloured according to the relative wealth/position of those living there: yellow = wealthy, black/blue = the poorest (& Peabody Trust estate in pink = mixed - some comfortable, others poor)

Source: umich.edu/~risotto/

And when Revd Wilson Carlisle (1847-1942) founded Church Army in 1882, its social action initiatives were also 'initially focused on the slums of Westminister – one of the most deprived and poverty-stricken spots in London'
churcharmy.org/who-we-are/our-history/

The church was built in the notorious slum area behind Westminster Abbey dubbed 'The Devil's Acre' by Charles Dickens

The 1851 opening of Victoria Street kickstarted the slum clearance process which continued in 1860s-80s with the building of social housing estates

Gustave Doré (1872)

The church was burnt down by an arsonist in 1977 and was reconstructed to a reduced plan and rededicated in 1984

All that remains today of the original church is from the crossing of the former church to the former altar, together with the beautiful Lady Chapel upstairs

Section of the Victorian painted ceiling in the old English Church of St Mary & All Saints at 56 English Embankment in St Petersburg, showing the symbol of Matthew (Angel) as well as those of the other Evangelists: Mark (Lion), John (Eagle) and Luke (Ox)

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'The Calling of Saint Matthew' (1600), by Caravaggio, in the Contarelli Chapel of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome

Caravaggio shows the moment when Jesus asks Matthew, an avaricious tax collector, to renounce his worldly possessions and follow Him (Matthew 9:9)

Public Domain

The Collect for Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist

Memorial cross (erected 1885, near to where he died) on the Melanesian island of Nukapu, with the inscription:

IN MEMORY OF JOHN COLERIDGE PATTESON, D.D. MISSIONARY BISHOP, Whose life was here taken by men, for whose sake he would willingly have given it. Sept. 20, 1871

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The listing for John Coleridge Patteson in An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church (2000)

episcopalchurch.org/glossary/patteson-john-coleridge/

The Collect for John Coleridge Patteson, First Anglican Bishop of Melanesia, and his Companions, Martyrs, 1871

The listing for Theodore of Tarsus, who died in Canterbury #OnThisDay in 690 AD, taken from An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church (2000)

episcopalchurch.org/glossary/theodore-of-tarsus/

The Collect for Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690

(Taken from the New English Missal for Common Worship, 2010)

For more on Heinrich Bullinger (1504-1575), see his page on the Musée virtuel du protestantisme: museeprotestant.org/en/notice/heinrich-bullinger-1504-1575/

Caritas abundat, a Psalm antiphon for the Holy Spirit by Hildegard of Bingen

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