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A Virtual Tour of St. Bartholomew's
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The neighborhood of St. Bartholomew's - West Smithfield, London. Through this gate, once a door into the nave of the great church, a visitor comes to the churchyard and St. Bartholomew's itself. Rahere's Garden home page. Last modified 11 February 2009.
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Rahere's Garden: A Personal Note
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Many people, having stumbled across the Internet site I’ve devoted to St. Bartholomew-the-Great, ask why in the world a woman trained as an astrophysicist, usually working as an Internet security architect, would decide to write a book about a medieval church located in one of the parts of London likely to be missed by most tourists. I was hooked. My intellect and my heart were engaged. I’ve fallen in love with a church. To my lasting sorrow, my grandfather died in the summer of 2009, long before I'd fin...
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Voragine's Bartholomew: the Legenda Aurea
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Voragine's Bartholomew: the Legenda Aurea. For the purposes of this discussion, I am using Voragine's Golden Legend,. Translated from the Latin by Granger Ryan and Helmut Ripperger (New York: Arno Press), published in 1969. The Life of St. Bartholomew the Apostle. Provides the Temple Classics edition of Voragine, originally translated by William Caxton, edited for Temple by F. S. Ellis. Handed down to us as the Legenda Aurea,. It was this lore that Jacobus set down in his book, searching out the legends ...
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The Priors & Rectors of St. Bartholomew the Great
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The Priors and Rectors of St. Bartholomew the Great. A Brief Note on Advowsons and Church Patronage. From the earliest days of Christianity in England, the nobility - who were at that time the only landowners - were encouraged to establish churches and monasteries. Bishops typically gave the founders of such an institution the right to select the cleric who would minister to the parish and manage its day to day activities and resources. Page on this site. The responsibility as "hiring manager" for the re...
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Rahere Yesterday and Today
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BUT WITH A FULL HEART. RECTOR OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW’S PRIORY CHURCH;. FORMERLY RECTOR OF HEXHAM ABBEY AND MERCERS’ LECTURER;. CANON OF NEWCASTLE CATHEDRAL;. MAJOR IN THE ROYAL SERBIAN ARMY;. ORDER OF THE GOLDEN CROSS AND THE HOLY ORTHODOX CHURCH,. AND ORDERS OF ST. SAVA. Whose great good fortune it has been to be the successor of St. Wilfred of 674, at Hexham Abbey, and of Rahere, the loveable, yesterday and to-day, founder in 1123 of St. Bartholomew’s Priory Church. AN URGENT S.O.S. SIR ASTON WEBB and SON.
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An Illustrated Account of St. Bartholomew's Priory Church
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Such is a simple outline of the character of the man by a contemporary biographer after his conversion; he having passed the flower of his youth amidst the licentiousness of the soldiers’ camp and the feudal castle, and joining in all the wild revelries of that time. Rdquo; Anon he answered to this saint, “whatsoever might be of heart and of might, diligently should I give in recompense to my Deliverer.’. Rahere came to London deeply impressed with this vision, and often spoke of the work he intended to ...
