Sundar Singh of India, Evangelist
19 June -- Commemoration
If celebrated as a Lesser Festival,
Common of Teachers, page 473
Born of wealthy Sikh parents, Sundar Singh was converted to
Christianity after experiencing a vision. He was baptised
in the Anglican church at Simla in 1905. In an endeavour to
present Christianity in a Hindu form, he donned the robes of
a 'Sadhu' or holy man and travelled much around the Indian
sub-continent. He even made a visit to Tibet, where he
persisted in strenuous work, despite ill health. He went
missing there, presumed murdered, in April 1929.