Free Republic 2nd Qtr 2025 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $62,347
76%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 76%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: wheathampstead

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • St Albans Cathedral: How were the remains of Abbot John reburied?

    08/08/2022 11:20:33 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 8 replies
    BBC News ^ | August 4, 2022 | Katy Lewis
    When the remains of a 15th Century abbot were carried to their final resting place in St Albans Cathedral on Saturday, five years after he was found in an unmarked grave, it begged the question, how exactly do you recommit the body of a Benedictine Abbot some 600 years after his death?It was during the building of the cathedral's new welcome centre in 2017 that an unearthed skeleton was later found to be that of Abbot John of Wheathampstead.Called to lead the church twice - from 1420 to 1440 and then from 1451 to his death in 1465 - he...