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A layman from the Mar Thoma Church, Kerala. Pioneering ecumenical leader, onetime<br />
chair of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches, director of the Institute<br />
for the Study of Religion and Society in Bangalore, and in 1990, he became the governor<br />
of Nagaland. M. M. did the unprecedented thing of retiring to his local village, where he<br />
lived among the people, and began a Biblical commentary in the local language. He died<br />
travelling on a train from Madras.<br />
The Dancing Saints<br />
The Dancing Saints icon is a monumental, surprising and powerful statement of faith for<br />
the ages, created by iconographer Mark Dukes with the rectors and congregation of Saint<br />
Gregory’s. When completed in 2008, it will be a 3,000 square foot painting wrapping<br />
around the entire church rotunda, showing ninety larger-than life saints; four animals;<br />
stars, moons, suns and a twelve-foot dancing Christ.<br />
The saints—ranging from traditional figures like King David, Teresa of Avila and Frances<br />
of Assisi to unorthodox and non-Christian people like Malcolm X, Anne Frank, and<br />
Margaret Mead—represent musicians, artists, mathematicians, martyrs, scholars,<br />
mystics, lovers, prophets and sinners from all times, from many faiths and backgrounds.<br />
As the congregation dances around the altar, the saints dance above, proclaiming a<br />
sweeping, universal vision of God shining through human life.<br />
http://deacondukes.blogspot.com/2009/01/saint-gregorys-dancing-saints-icon.html<br />
“I have two expressions to my iconography; my personal and my liturgical. My liturgical<br />
work I have expressed chiefly through my Neo-Byzantine icon project The Dancing<br />
Saints Icon of St. Gregory's Episcopal Church, San Francisco. This is a 2500 plus square<br />
feet icon mural that decorates the rotunda of the church's sanctuary and consists of a<br />
depiction of 90 oversize traditional and nontraditional "saints" from diverse times and