LIVES OF CHURCHMEN PRESENTED IN PLAYS

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, February 3, 1993                   TAG: 9302030186
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-2   EDITION: METRO 
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LIVES OF CHURCHMEN PRESENTED IN PLAYS
Dramatic presentations on the lives of St. Patrick and John Wesley are scheduled Thursday in Salem.
Actor Roger Nelson dramatizes the "Confessions of St. Patrick" at 11:20 a.m. in the Sutton Student Center Ballroom on the Roanoke College campus.
Part of the college's Convocation Series, it is free and open to the public.
"Confessions" was written by St. Patrick about the year 450, while he was a missionary in Ireland.
At 7 p.m., Nelson will take on the character of John Wesley, founder of Methodism, in the play "The Man from Aldersgate."
This presentation will be held at Salem's First United Methodist Church on Main Street, and is co-sponsored by the church and Roanoke College.
Nelson has performed the play, taken from Wesley's "Journals," more than 800 times in 30 countries.

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB