Certificate of Confirmation: James Pickens Walker, November 26 1950
Book 3, Page 20 ·1950
Transcription
A printed certificate within a red Greek-cross-cornered border.
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
We do Certify:
That, after the example of the Holy Apostles, and in accordance with the universal practice of the Holy Catholic Church, by the laying on of our hands, we did administer to
Filled-in name in blue ballpoint:
James Pickens Walker
Printed heading:
THE SACRAMENTAL RITE OF
Confirmation
wherein were conveyed the Sevenfold Gifts of the Holy Spirit; which administration was upon the
Filled-in date and place:
twenty-sixth day of November in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred Fifty, in Good Shepherd Church, Jacksonville, in the Diocese of Florida.
Signatures, in blue ballpoint:
(Signed) Frank A. Juhan
Bishop of Florida
Presented by the Rev. L. Valentine Lee
the Rev. T. Walton Taylor [best-guess reading]
AI Notes
A printed Episcopal Certificate of Confirmation (Morehouse-Gorham Form No. 100 series, companion to the Form No. 200 Suggestions card on page 21), filled out in blue ballpoint. A pale yellow Latin cross is printed as a background watermark. The bishop’s signature, examined at full crop resolution, reads Frank A. Juhan — i.e., Frank Alexander Juhan, Bishop of Florida 1924–1956. The presenting priest is the Rev. L. Valentine Lee, rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Jacksonville; the second priest’s signature reads as T. Walton Taylor (best guess). James Pickens Walker Jr. — already married since 1941 — was confirmed by laying-on of hands at age 38.
Frank Alexander Juhan (1887–1967) served as Bishop of Florida from 1924 to 1956 — a 32-year episcopate covering nearly all of the Walker family’s Jacksonville years. James Pickens Walker Jr. was 38 at his confirmation, nearly a decade into his marriage to Ann Knight Walker (see p017); his father, then 67, had been baptized in the same parish by the same rector the day before (see p023). The compressed two-day rite is unusual: the elder Walker received baptism, while his already-baptized son received the apostolic laying-on of hands that completed his own initiation into the Episcopal Church.