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- إراستوس سنو (بالإنجليزية: Erastus Snow) هو قسيس مسيحي أمريكي، ولد في 9 نوفمبر 1818 في سانت جوهانسبوري في الولايات المتحدة، وتوفي في 27 مايو 1888 في مدينة سولت ليك في الولايات المتحدة. (ar)
- Erastus Snow (November 9, 1818 – May 27, 1888) was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1849 until his death. Snow was also a leading figure in Mormon colonization of Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. Snow was born on November 9, 1818, in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, to Levi Snow and Lucina Streeter. He joined the institutional predecessor of the LDS Church, the Church of Christ, in the early 1830s. One of the missionaries who taught him was Orson Pratt. Snow's brothers, William and Zerubbabel Snow, joined the church prior to his joining. He was baptized on February 3, 1833, in Vermont. Snow moved to Kirtland, Ohio, where the church was headquartered, and was able to witness the dedication of the Kirtland Temple. However, he spent much of his time on missions, primarily in Pennsylvania. He later served a mission to Salem, Massachusetts, where he baptized several converts, including Nathaniel Ashby, a man with whom he shared a duplex when they both resided in Nauvoo, Illinois. Snow was ordained a member of the Seventy in 1836. In April 1839, at the age of 20, Snow successfully petitioned the jailers at Liberty Jail to move Joseph Smith (founder of the Latter Day Saint movement) and the prisoners accompanying him to a different location. He was subsequently appointed a member of the high council of the church. In 1845, Snow received his endowment in the Nauvoo Temple. Over the course of his life, Snow served a total of sixteen missions to New England, St. Louis, Arizona, southern Utah, Denmark, Scandinavia, and Mexico. Writer George M. McCune has said of Snow: "He prevailed in debates over the Book of Mormon and healed and converted many during his life." Snow was in the first Mormon pioneer company to journey to the Salt Lake Valley. He and Orson Pratt were the first two Mormons to enter the Valley, completing the journey on July 21, 1847. In October 1848, Snow began serving in the presidency of the Salt Lake Stake. On February 12, 1849, Snow was ordained a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. On the same day, Charles C. Rich, Lorenzo Snow, and Franklin D. Richards were ordained. Snow served in this capacity until his death in 1888. At the October 1849 general conference, Snow was assigned to lead a mission to Scandinavia. He had as a companion a Danish convert, Peter O. Hansen, who had joined the church in Boston. They focused most of their efforts in Denmark, but another convert had joined them, John E. Forsgren, who preached in Sweden. While serving as a missionary in Denmark, Snow baptized the first Icelanders to join the church, ordained them to the priesthood, and sent them to Iceland to preach. Before the end of his mission, Snow began the publication of a church periodical in Danish. Later in the 1850s, Snow served as the presiding church authority in the midwestern United States, using St. Louis, Missouri as his headquarters. While in Missouri, Snow edited the periodical St. Louis Luminary. He returned to the Utah Territory in 1857 and engaged in farming. In 1860, Snow went with Orson Pratt on a mission to the Eastern states. By the time they reached the Eastern United States, Abraham Lincoln had been elected president. With the impending war, they were able to convince many church members to move to Utah Territory. Much of this migration happened in 1861 after the American Civil War had begun. After returning to Utah in 1861, Snow was made the apostle in charge of the southern Utah Mormon settlements. He lived in St. George. (en)
- Erastus Fairbanks Snow (St. Johnsbury, 9 novembre 1818 – Salt Lake City, 27 maggio 1888) è stato un presbitero statunitense. Erastus fu un membro del Quorum dei Dodici della Chiesa di Gesù Cristo dei santi degli ultimi giorni (mormoni) dal 1849 al 1888. Snow fu anche una figura importante nella colonizzazione dell'Arizona, del Colorado, e del Nuovo Messico. (vicino a St. George, Utah), lo (a Ephraim (Utah) insieme a Lorenzo Snow) e la città di Snowflake (Arizona) (insieme a ) portano il nome di Erastus Snow. Snow entrò nella chiesa del Vermont all'inizio del decennio 1830. Uno dei missionari pensò che lui fosse Orson Pratt. Suo fratello, , entrò nella chiesa prima di lui. Si trasferì a Kirtland (Ohio), ma passo la maggior parte del tempo in missione, principalmente in Pannsylvania. Successivamente servì a Salem (Massachusetts) dove battezzò diverse persone tra cui Nathaniel Ashby, un uomo con cui divise in duplex mentre risiedeva a Nauvoo, Illinois. Erastus Snow fu il primo pioniere mormone ad attraversare le pianure. Fu uno dei primi due mormoni ad entrare nella Salt Lake Valley, l'altro era Orson Pratt. Snow fu ordinato membro del Quorum dei Dodici il 12 febbraio 1849. Lo stesso giorno furono nominati anche , Lorenzo Snow e . Nell'ottobre 1849 alla conferenza generale, Snow fu chiamato a portare avanti una missione in Scandinavia. Il suo compagno di viaggio fu , un mormone olandese, che si era unito alla chiesa a Boston. Concentrarono la maggior parte dei suoi sforzi in Danimarca, ma altri membri si unirono a loro, John E. Forsgren, che predicava il Vangelo in Svezia. Mentre prestava servizio come missionario in Danimarca, Snow battezzò il primo islandese che si unì alla chiesa, ordinandolo al sacerdozio, e lo rimandò in Islanda per predicare il Vangelo. Prima della fine della sua missione Snow cominciò a pubblicare una rivista periodica ecclesiastica in Danimarca. Alla fine del decennio 1850 Snow servì come l'autorità che presiedeva la chiesa nel mid-west degli Stati Uniti, con base a St. Louis. Tornò nello Utah nel 1857 e costruì una fattoria. Nel 1860 Snow andò in missione con Orson Pratt negli Stati dell'Est. All'epoca in cui raggiunsero gli Stati dell'Est fu eletto presidente Abraham Lincoln. Con l'imminente guerra furono in grado di ottenere molti membri della Chiesa che erano rimasti nella zona orientale così come molti convertiti si spostarono nello Utah. Gran parte di questa migrazione avvenne nel 1861 dopo che la Guerra di secessione americana era cominciata. Dopo il ritorno nello Utah nel 1861 Snow fu fatto Apostolo, responsabile del insediamenti Utah meridionale. Snow era il fratello di Primo Giudice dello Utah . La figlia di Erastus Snow, Elizabeth era la moglie di e la madre di (it)
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