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There’s always been scandal. Such as: what if the royal governor started pursuing your daughter in the most public way imaginable? In May 1703, members of the Virginia colony’s Council of State (consisting in part of Ludwell family members and...

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The Ludwells: From Charlemagne’s Court to the Heavenly Kingdom

12 May 2019

Nicholas Chapman

Family, Research

The life of Philip Ludwell III, as that of all of us, is not one that stands in isolation. It is part of a much longer continuum of consciousness that in turn places the residents of early modern America in...

Video of “Ludwell Presanctified” from Holy Trinity Monastery – March 2019

18 Apr 2019

ACPL

Church, Videos

On March 27, 2019, the Presanctified Liturgy of St Gregory the Dialogist using the 18th-century English translation of Philip Ludwell III was celebrated at the Cemetery Dormition Chapel at Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, NY. The liturgy was celebrated by...

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Philip Ludwell III’s Translation of A Hymn to the Virgin

06 Apr 2019

Nicholas Chapman

Church, Research

Around a quarter of a century before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War in America a special prayer of the Eastern Orthodox Church was translated by a friend and relative of some of the founding fathers of the United States....

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Calling All Parishes: Please Remember Philip Ludwell III on March 27

10 Mar 2019

Nicholas Chapman

Church

March 27, 2019 will mark the 252nd anniversary of the falling asleep in the Lord of the ever-memorable Colonel Philip Ludwell III of Greenspring, Virginia. This year March 27 will fall on a Wednesday of the Great Lenten Fast when...

The Leedstown Resolves and the Lees and Ludwells of Virginia

27 Feb 2019

Nicholas Kosar

Events, Family, Places

On this day in history, on February 27, 1766, four brothers of the Lee family of Virginia signed the Leedstown Resolves in reaction to the British Parliament’s Stamp Act of 1765. This act in Leedstown, Virginia occurred approximately one year...

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Lucy Burwell and a Governor’s Unwanted Public Advances

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Video of “Ludwell Presanctified” from Holy Trinity Monastery – March 2019

Philip Ludwell III’s Translation of A Hymn to the Virgin

Calling All Parishes: Please Remember Philip Ludwell III on March 27

The Leedstown Resolves and the Lees and Ludwells of Virginia

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