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(c) Dominic Formal /catholicnews.org.ukThe surveillance set in motion information from the English and Welsh Catholic Communications Framework was published today:
The Archbishop of Southwark, the Furthermost Rev Peter Smith, and the Abbot of Farnborough Abbey, the Rt Rev Dom Cuthbert Brogan OSB, are pleased to emerge that together with a intimate agreement sale a number of key significant items from the from way back Benedictine Abbey at Ramsgate in Kent are to interval in Catholic hands. The generalization drive return to the church of St. Augustine in Ramsgate, the nerve Assess I church which Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852) intended and built adjacent to his own rank, The Grange. Pugin intended and fitted out the church in every moment and the items inveterate to St. Augustine's church intensify the fruitful collections or else there. Fair and square, the items acquired by Farnborough Abbey intensify the Abbey's noble collections of sacred silver.
The Archbishop of Southwark and the Abbot of Farnborough would individually one and the same to thank Abbot Paulinus Greenwood, Abbot of the Benedictine Clearance sooner than based in Ramsgate, and auctioneers Dominic Formal for their full cooperative spirit and sponsor in facilitating this luminous outcome.
With the significant items inveterate to St. Augustine's is a generous monstrance of about 1850 which is very shut to one which Pugin intended for his other well-known church, St. Gile's, Cheadle, and a watercolour outline by Pugin of the national of St. Augustine's, Ramsgate. This outline was a early study for a endless fine art which Pugin sent for reveal at the Kingdom University in 1849. The monks at Benedictine Farnborough Abbey stock acquired an noble silver recusant chalice dating from 1633. English recusant silver of this breakneck stint is good scarce due to the disapprove on Catholic honey surveillance the Amusement. This chalice is imprinted with scenes from the Sweetheart of Christ. It was given to the monks at Ramsgate in the nineteenth century by a link of the Hales line, who were recusants. It had been in the Hale line for generations.
The sale of stodgy from Ramsgate Abbey came about to the same extent of the Ramsgate monks' progressive move to less significant premises at Chilworth in Surrey and on deposit of their obtain to angle stacks verification to attitude their work and impel. The See of Southwark took back sense of duty for St. Augustine's church from the monks in 2010 and has instigated a essential programme of set up with clad portray sponsor from English Heritage. An scrumptiousness was launched live through November in the Flood Freedom at the Neighborhood of Lords, a room what's more intended by AWN Pugin. The area priest, Fr Marcus Holden, has geared up a Associates of St. Augustine's and consumers of the scrumptiousness adjoin the announcer, Alistair Stewart, and the architectural writer, Clive Aslet. Later than the new acquisitions added to the offer bunch, the Associates are plan to put on an quite good.
Advantage Marcus Holden, thought, "We stock a essential programme to bring St. Augustine's back to as it was in Pugin's day and the get of these items contributes in a receive way to what we are seeking to groove indoors in Ramsgate. Pugin vital to build this church indoors to the same extent St. Augustine had landed mum in 597AD. We determination St. Augustine's to become a prim place to scratch each one the elevated achievements of Pugin and the coming of Christianity to England which enthralled him. As we reclaim Pugin's birthday on Pageant 1st we drive be celebrating not chastely an iconic domestic maker but a key perform operations of the Catholic revival".
Nathan Formal of Dominic Formal Book Auctions thought, "We are pleased to stock been of aid to the See of Southwark in the retention of a number of key significant relevant from St. Augustine's Abbey in Ramsgate and to know that they drive route in the noble amusement container now underway at the pet Pugin church there, expansively regarded as one of the architect's superlative achievements".
The Abbot of Farnborough thought, "Dominic Formal Book Auctions, the auctioneers, are to be commended for their professionalism and staying power in negotiating this sale and for their idea to the concerns of the wider Catholic community. All sacred vessels are noble. The recusant chalice communicates with a careful clarity the hardships suffered by Catholics in what are described in the letters on the chalice as imply time. We are pleased that this chalice drive interval in haul hands."
A hindrance of other photographs can be seen at the Conference's flickr page.
For upper information about the rumpus caused by the rummage sale, see Fr Ray Blake's blog. Calculate these articles stock been saved, Fr Blake asks: But What is Lost?
