SAINT CYRIL CONCLAVE
RED CROSS OF CONSTANTINE
301 E. Chestnut Street Evansville, Indiana
History of Saint Cyril Conclave |
When famine hit the vicinity of Jerusalem, Cyril, the Bishop, promptly sold some of the Church's most prized possessions to relieve the poor and to obtain food for the starving. When the famine was over some angry Church members succeeded in having Cyril condemned at a public meeting as an irresponsible thief who had illegally disposed of Church property. This temporarily drove him ourt of the city. Although Cyril ws a gentle and conciliatory man, this event was typical of the bitter controversy, which racked his episcopate.Scarcely had he regained his diocese before he was again expelled, this time, by Arian heretics who had gained great power in Jerusalem. He was restored to the Jersualem bishopric again by none other that the infamous Emperor Julian, the Apostate. Due to this rather coincidental fact, Cyril had difficulty regaining the conficence of the other Orthodox Bishops of the Church. Further-more, the Jerusalem Church had become norotious throughout the Christian world for its low moral standards. This situation Cyril attempted to correct, but his enemies blamed him for it.Cyril's greatest talent seems to have been as a teacher and preacher. Very little of this thought was ever written down, but what we have is most impressive and timely even today.SAINT CYRIL CONCLAVE IN "EVANSVILLE INDIANA"A brief history of the founding of Saint Cyril Conclave in Evansville, IndianaDuring the late 1980's and throughout the 90's several Southern Indiana prominent York Rite Masons traversed throughout Indiana attending Red Cross of Constantine meetings visiting Saint James Conclave and Saint Hiliary Conclaves. Four Indiana Grand Masters along with several very active York Rite Masons were involved with acquiring a Charter to start a Red Cross of Constantine Conclave in Southern Indiana. Robert E. Price was the Intendant General at the time for the State of Indiana and Past Imperial Grand Sovereign James DeMond performed the research to come up with the name of the new conclave. The founding members namely: Darrell Veach, Robert Stevens, Gail Kemp, William Gallmeister, Bill Anthis, R. Frank Williams, Burtis Cloud and Robert Sheets were instrumental in acquiring our very own Charter on August 29, 1998. Naming this organization Saint Cyril Conclave after the Bishop of Jerusalem. The membership is very selective and by invitation only and limited to 35 regular members and 10 Emeritus members. In the beginning, meetings were conducted at the Evansville Executive Inn Hotel and then were moved to Hadi Shrine Temple for several years and finally moved to the Evansville Masonic Temple York Rite Room until present. Intendent Generals representing the United Grand Imperial Council for Saint Cyril were Robert E. Prince, Dwayne Evenson and Larry Gray respectively whom were all presented Honorary Memberships, along with James DeMond and Robert Bailey."SAINT CYRL CONCLAVE" SOVEREIGNS1998-1999 DARRELL A. VEACH1999-2000 GAIL NEAL KEMP2000-2001 ROBERT DALE SHEETS SR.2001-2002 J. RALPH SADDLER2002-2003 DONALD L. SHAW2003-2004 HARREL R. HAYNES2004-2005 NEIL ARNOLD WARD2005-2006 RONNIE R. MARKHAM2006-2007 RANDALL LEE CRAYNER2007-2008 ROBERT R. "GUS" STEVENS2008-2009 HERB ROACH2009-2010 J. KEN WENDT2010-2011 THOMAS LEE BARTELT2011-2012 RICK ALAN CORY2012-2013 CHESTER BERNARD PEAK, JR.2013-2014 EDWARD L. SEBRING2014-2015 JAMES R. ADAMSON2015-2016 JOHN LOUIS SCHEIDEL, III2016-2017 EARL WOODROW ADAM2017-2018 BRIAN SCOTT DU BOIS2018-2019 KENNETH EUGENE WILLIS, JR.
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