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Sword Slashed Statue Of Our Lady Of Breivood
O UR Lady of Brewood bears bullet wounds and sword slashes. It is a wooden statue of medieval simplicity and richness which was rescued from debris of an ancient Catholic houso......
St. Chad's Music Forestalled Motu Proprio
St. Chad's Choir is the oldest endowed choir of its kind in the country. In 1854 Mr John Hardman made an endowment of £50 on conditions that anticipate in a remarkable way the......
English Martyr's Body Brought Back From Germany
T HE question may very naturally be asked, why does the body of the great Archbishop of the Primatial See of Ireland rest in the Abbey Church at Downside in Somerset? When on......
Forgotten Ancient Shrines
HARVINGTON WHITELADIES STONOR PARK WHITECHURCH I HE Birmingham province is rich in associations connected with the penal times, or farther back still in memorials of the faith......
Our Ludy Of Prinknash
Very Remarkable History T HE Benedictine community now at Prinknash and formerly at Caldey possess a remarkable statue of Our Lady, which has an equally remarkable history. It......
South Devon The Heart Of Mary's Dowry
By Dom Raphael Stones, O.S.B. S ET amid the hills of Devon stands the Shrine of Our Lady of Buckfast. Long ago, Celt or Saxon or Norman, pious hands built Saint Mary's Abbey......
But Four This Year . . .
It cannot be said that Birmingham people have taken very kindly to pilgrimages in the past; 1939, however, seems to have brought a new spirit. This year there are to be four......
A Memorial To A Great Birmingham Citizen
M UCH history has been made since the great days of Newman's ti. - rringly spiritual polemics, the face of Birmingham has much changed, but its mind, and that is its......