Posted on 01/14/2010 10:09:36 AM PST by Salvation
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A Marian shrine in Gloucestershire in the Cotswolds of western England, now a monastery of the English Benedictines. Its focus of devotion is a small statue (eighteen inches high) of Our Lady, which belonged to St. Thomas More. After the Reformation this choice possession was taken to Europe. In 1925, when the monks coming from Caldey Island, off the south coast of Wales, founded their new abbey, the statue was returned to Prinknash. Mary's shrine is now near the choir stalls of the monastery chapel.
Catholics do not worship Mary; we venerate her by asking her to pray for us -- intercede for us, just like she did at the Wedding of Cana by interceding with her Son because the bride and groom had run out of wine.
Also, are you aware of the fact that the words spoken by Mary at that time are her last words recorded in the Bible?
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THE WATERTON STATUE On the 5th. July 1535, Henry VIII left Windsor for his progress in Gloucestershire. On the very same day Sir Thomas More wrote his last letter to his daughter Margarte: "Our Lord bless you, good daughter, and your good husband, and your little boy ..... I never liked your manner towards me better than when you kissed me last." Thomas More was executed the next day when Henry VIII was riding away from London into Gloucestershire. Among the treasures at Prinknash is a medieval statue of the Blessed Virgin and Child which is black with age, showing feint touches of ancient guilding. This statue was given to the community by a descendant of Sir Thomas More, one of the Waterton family, to be placed in a shrine at Prinknash, for the conversion of England. During November 2002 this statue was stolen and we pray for it's safe return in the not too distant future.
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