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Christine Langseth Benagh
May 4, 2017

Christine Benagh was born in 1924. She grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, where she attended city schools and graduated cum laude from Vanderbilt University in 1946. She was married to Henry Collier Benagh, and they raised four children. Christine was a devout Episcopalian and worked as an editor for the Abington Press in Nashville. She converted to Orthodoxy and attended Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in Nashville. Her husband later followed her into the faith.  Ever alert to the world around her, on a trip to England Christine discovered that the English tutor to the children of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia had escaped Russia during the revolution and returned to England where he had converted to Orthodoxy, in part as response to the witness of the royal family. He eventually became an Orthodox priest and lived in Oxford, England. Christine found his story fascinating and in 2000 published “An Englishman in the Court of the Tsar: The Spiritual Journey of Charles Sydney Gibbs.” Earlier she had published two books, “Meditations on the Book of Job” (1964), “100 Keys: Names Across the Land” (1973), and in 1995 an article in St. Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly about the three Holy Youths. Christine passed away on May 4, 2017, and is buried with her husband in Spring Hill Cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee.

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