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At an early morning Eucharist in a cold January dawn at the St. Mary Chapel in the Cathedral Church of St. Luke I was gazing up at the magnificent stained glass window behind the altar when there crossed my mind an incident that occurred during the first years of St. Luke’s founding. (I cannot help these throwbacks to history – after all, I am the diocesan historiographer!)

The 13th bishop of the Diocese of South Carolina, the  Rt. Reverend Edward L. Salmon, Jr, was born in Natchez, Miss., in 1934. He received a degrees from the University of the South and Virginia Theological Seminary and was ordained a priest in the Diocese of Arkansas in 1961.