Services for seasonal workers held in island tradition at Episcopal church

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Clad in a red T-shirt that promoted a 2008 performance of Johannes Braham’s “Requiem,” Geoffrey Schuller of Mount Desert thrust his arms into the air and shouted, “Hallelujah!”

A few minutes later he joined other worshippers in crying out, “Praise Jesus!” followed by a few “Amens” in quick succession.

Schuller’s spirited responses Sunday night would have been typical had he been worshipping at any of the state’s evangelical or Pentecostal churches. Schuller, however, was sitting in St. Saviour’s Episcopal Church in a worship service for seasonal workers from Jamaica who work on Mount Desert Island.

The congregation was founded in 1870 by an early group of summer people. It was named St. Saviour’s for the French Jesuit Mission, St. Sauveur, established on the island in 1613. The words translate as holy savior or holy redeemer, which is the name of Bar Harbor’s Roman Catholic church located across the street and a block west of the Episcopal church.

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