title: Feast day service honoring pioneers in medicine.
abstract: The Standing Liturgical Commission of the Anglican Church in the United States has identified persons whom they consider Holy men or Holy women, and who are celebrated in Lesser Feast and Fast day services. In 2009, the triennial General Convention of the Anglican Church, USA, ratified the recommendation of the Commission that Dr. William W. Mayo and Dr. Charles Menninger and their sons, as pioneers in medicine, were worthy of such a designation. The author was approached to deliver the following homily at a service at the Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church in Houston, Texas, March 6, 2013.
authors.affiliation: Editor of the Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic and Adjunct Professor, Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Houston, Texas.
authors.forename: W Walter
authors.initials: WW
authors.lastname: Menninger
mesh_terms: D001680:Biographies as Topic; D006666:History of Medicine; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008511:Medicine; D010820:Physicians; D033303:Protestantism; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D014481:United States