December 10, 2021 | Springfield News-Sun
By Brett Turner
A name from Springfield’s past will live on and gain new appreciation through an Ohio Historical Marker dedicated on Sunday.
Daniel Rudd, a former slave who moved to Springfield after the Civil War and raised in Catholicism as a member of St. Raphael Church, was honored with the marker outside St. Raphael’s.
Lord, in this holy season of prayer and song and laughter, we praise you for the great wonders you have sent us: for shining star and angel’s song, for infant’s cry in lowly manger. We praise you for the Word made flesh in a little Child. We behold his glory, and are bathed in its radiance.
Be with us as we sing the ironies of Christmas, the incomprehensible comprehended, the poetry made hard fact, the helpless Babe who cracks the world asunder. We kneel before you shepherds, innkeepers, wisemen. Help us to rise bigger than we are. Amen.