S KYNEBURGA, CASTOR, HUNTS Few places in England have such evidence for the continuity of human settlement and of Christian worship as does Castor. In Roman times, the garrison town of Durobrivae stood nearby. In 1975, ploughing at Water [...]
Arthur Middleton on Dogma, Devotion and Life In 1939 Canon Demant pubished an important book The Religious Prospect. but because of the outbreak of war it did not attract the attention it deserved. In it he stated that the [...]
John Gayford on a medieval treasury The Legenda Aurea originally called Legenda sanctorum (Reading of the Saints) was written by Jacob de Voragine O.P. in 1259-1266. The word “legend” has changed its meaning over the years; it was originally [...]
Robin Ward celebrates the author of the Divine Comedy, who died on 14 September 1321 This year is the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante, the poet of whom T S Eliot said, ‘Dante and Shakespeare divide the [...]
Lionel Jarvis Prior of the Order in England, takes us on a journey across 900 years The Order of St John of Jerusalem came into existence as a pilgrim hospital in Jerusalem the late 11th Century. The early visitors [...]
William Davage has taken up his pen My 70th birthday party on a Saturday afternoon in February 2020 now seems something akin to the long, languorous summer of 1914 before the deluge of the Great War. By some miracle [...]
The first French cathedral I ever saw was Chartres; did it gave me a taste for more, or did it spoil me for all the rest? Perhaps both. There were four of us in the car heading south down the [...]
St Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our defence against the wickedness and snares of the Devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly hosts, by the power of God, [...]
Art Paula Rego Tate Britain until 24th October, 2021 Paula Rego DBE (1935-) was educated at the only Anglican school in Portugal. Which is to say quite a lot. She went to St Julian’s in Lisbon because her [...]
Christopher Smith has been back to the British Museum This business of having a social life again is exhausting, isn’t it? It has been good to be out and about again, and, among other things, to be back in [...]