Absalom Jones Celebration on Feb. 12

The Annual Absalom Jones Celebration will take place at St. Francis, Virginia Beach, February 12 at 4 p.m.  Everyone is invited to attend. A reception will follow the service.

To include your acolytes and choir in the service, contact St. Francis at 757-340-6884.

After founding a black congregation in 1794, Absalom Jones was the first African American ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church, in 1804. He is listed on the Episcopal calendar of saints and remembered liturgically on the date of his death, February 13.