Sunday June 15, 1941 The death of Evelyn Underhill.
Also on this day Anglican writer Evelyn Underhill died at age 65. She is highly regarded in Anglican circles, having a place on the Church of England's and the US Episcopal Church's calendars on this day. As an Anglican writer, she is regarded as being in the Anglo Catholic category.
Anglo Catholicism was a strong movement within the Anglican Communion, particularly in England itself, in the second half of the 19th Century and emphasized the Anglican Communion's Catholic roots to the extent that it sought to emphasize that it shared Apostolic succession and, therefore, was a full Catholic church, somewhat sharing the status of the Orthodox Church, or perhaps even closure to Rome than that. It ultimately resulted in a Vatican decree that its holy orders were "completely null and utterly void", which it has reacted to on more than one occasion by seeking ordinations from clearly valid Bishops in other denominations The movement still exists within the Anglican Communion.
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