Mr. John George Sage, 44, was born in Hackney, London in 1867. During his youth he had a number of trades which included corn grinder, theatre door attendant, barman and baker.He married Annie Elizabeth Cazaly (born 1867), also from Hackney on 2nd November, 1890. The couple went on to have the following children: Stella Anne Sage (born 1891), George John Sage (born 1892), Douglas Bullen Sage (born 1894), Frederick Sage (born 1895), Dorothy Florence Sage (born 1897), Anthony William Sage (born 1899), Elizabeth Ada Sage (born 1901), Constance Gladys Sage (born 1904) and Thomas Henry Sage (born 1907). Two other children died in infancy. Sometime around 1900 the family moved to the Norfolk area where John became landlord of several public houses in the North Wootton area. They then moved to Peterborough where they purchased a small bakery and shop at 237 Gladstone Street. Some time later John and his oldest son, George, went to Canada where they worked as dining car attendants for the Canadian Pacific Railway. It was during this period that they discovered Florida.

A surviving postcard suggests how taken John was with the area: Date illegible - 1911 - My Dear have found a lovely plot of land, Jacksonville is quite the most wonderful of places. I count the days until I'm home with my dear ones. Your loving husband John John Sage.

Decided to relocate the family to Jacksonville, he put a deposit on a farm where he intended to grow pecan nuts and returned home in late 1911 to prepare the family for the move. George remained in Florida where he became engaged to a local girl. In early 1912 he too returned home in order to settle some business. John's enthusiasm was evidently not shared by Annie Sage who did not want to leave England, having a fear of water - her daughter Dorothy (Dolly) had fallen into a well in the back yard of the family home and almost drowned. Annie also appears to have been rather timid by nature too. John insisted that the family piano and other furniture was crated up and sent ahead and sent over £1,000 with which to pay the balance of the farm. The entire family boarded the Titanic at Southampton (ticket number CA. 2343, £69, 11s) on 10 April 1912. It is likely that the family was able to reach the deck shortly before the Titanic went down, there are reports that Stella had got into a lifeboat but left it when other members of her family were unable to join her. The whole family were lost in the sinking, out of the eleven only the body of Will Sage was ever recovered.

The Vatican has put Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí on the path to sainthood in recognition of his "heroic virtues".

Gaudí - who has been dubbed by some as "God's architect" - is the designer of one of Spain's most famous religious sites and tourist attractions, the unfinished Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona.

On Monday, the Vatican issued a statement which said Pope Francis had authorised a decree declaring the Catalonia-born architect "venerable".

That is an early step on the road to a candidate for sainthood being formally canonised by the Catholic Church.

It is the latest development in a decades-long campaign to have Gaudí, who was a devout Catholic, recognised as a saint.

The Archbishop of Barcelona, Cardinal Juan Jose Omella, called the news a "joy".

"It is a recognition not only of his architectural work but something more important," he said, according to AFP news agency.

The cardinal continued: "He is saying you... amid life's difficulties, amid work, amid pain, amid suffering, are destined to be saints."

The usual formal process for someone to be declared a saint would next involve beatification, one step short of full sainthood.

That is a category reserved for martyrs, those deemed to have lived a life of heroic values and candidates who the Church declares to have a saintly reputation.

In the case of Gaudí, who died in 1926 after being hit by a tram while walking to church, the Vatican would likely require proof of a miracle that could be attributed to him post-death in order to proceed with beatification.

Gaudí was born in 1852 and many of his best known works continue to attract visitors to Barcelona, where much of his legacy is situated.

The Sagrada Familia basilica has been under construction since 1883 and remains unfinished.

It has been placed on Unesco's World Heritage list, along with some of Gaudi's other works, and was consecrated by Pope Benedict XVI in 2010.

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Francis Young was from Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland. He was one of ten children born to William and Emily, nine of whom lived past childhood. His father, a prison warden, was originally from Tipperary, and his mother was originally from County Limerick. He was working as one of 167 firemen on board the Titanic and perished at age thirty.

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R.I.P to all 710 victims of the RMS Titanic disaster.

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An ancient oak felled in a north London park on the order of Toby Carvery's owners was healthy and could have lived "for another few hundred years", the leader of the local council has said.

Pub chain Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) said on Tuesday it was responsible for chopping down the 500-year-old tree, "to protect our employees and guests as well as the wider general public".

An Enfield Council planning document from March 2024 stated that the pedunculate oak was a "fine specimen" with high ecological and landscape value and had a life expectancy of at least 50 years.

But council leader Ergin Erbil said a more recent inspection found the tree could have lived for several more centuries.

He said: "Our experts surveyed this tree in December and they said it's healthy... so I completely oppose the argument from the leaseholder that this posed a health and safety risk."

Describing the felling of the tree as an "outrage", Mr Erbil added that M&B "did not consult us as the landowner, and they should have". The oak, which was cut down on 3 April, was located on the edge of council-owned Whitewebbs Park and overlooked a Toby Carvery.

Enfield Council said on Tuesday it had reported the felling as a case of criminal damage to the Met Police, which is understood to have closed its inquiry, deeming it a civil matter.

Luke 1:37

King James Version

For with God nothing shall be impossible.

Commander Harold Godfrey Lowe (21 November 1882 – 12 May 1944) was a British naval officer. He was also the fifth officer of the RMS Titanic, and was one of the four ship's officers to survive the disaster.

Lowe's is noted as being one of only two lifeboats to return for survivors. Lowe had his crew of men raise the mast (he was the only officer to make use of the mast and sail in each lifeboat); using a breeze that had sprung up, he continued on to rescue the passengers on the sinking Collapsible A. Lowe and his group of lifeboats were picked up the next morning by the RMS Carpathia. An image taken by a passenger on the Carpathia clearly shows Lowe at the tiller of lifeboat 14 as they approach rescue. He remained aboard his lifeboat long enough to ship the mast and make certain everything was properly stowed.

Good Friday, also known as Holy Friday, Great Friday, Great and Holy Friday, or Friday of the Passion of the Lord, is a solemn Christian holy day commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus and his death at Calvary (Golgotha). It is observed during Holy Week as part of the Paschal Triduum.

Members of many Christian denominations, including the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran, Anglican, Methodist, Oriental Orthodox, United Protestant and some Reformed traditions (including certain Continental Reformed, Presbyterian and Congregationalist churches), observe Good Friday with fasting and church services. In many Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican and Methodist churches, the Service of the Great Three Hours' Agony is held from noon until 3 p.m.—the hours the Bible records darkness covering the land until Jesus' death on the cross. Communicants of the Moravian Church have a Good Friday tradition of cleaning gravestones in Moravian cemeteries.

The date of Good Friday varies from one year to the next in both the Gregorian and Julian calendars. Eastern and Western Christianity disagree over the computation of the date of Easter and therefore of Good Friday. Good Friday is a widely instituted legal holiday around the world. Some predominantly Christian countries, such as Germany, have laws prohibiting certain acts—public dancing, horse racing—in remembrance of the sombre nature of Good Friday.

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Never forget the sacrifice our Lord Jesus Christ made for us on Good Friday.

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Oklahoma City marks 30 years since the terrorist attack that killed 168 people

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Galatians 5:22f

The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Proverbs 14:19

New International Version

Evildoers will bow down in the presence of the good,
and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.