tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881811987987045711.post2439959653050145206..comments2024-03-23T18:12:43.833+00:00Comments on Once I Was A Clever Boy: Downside Abbey - a further thoughtOnce I Was A Clever Boyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01367322665145704342noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881811987987045711.post-43529196494470434872020-09-04T13:21:23.904+01:002020-09-04T13:21:23.904+01:00Thank you for this. I had thought about mentioning...Thank you for this. I had thought about mentioning the relics but rather assumed that the community will take those with them to their new home. That said to take them away from the chapels where they are kept, such as the skull of St Thomas of Hereford kept in the easternmost chapel as I recall would be a new “Stripping of the Altars“. It is terribly sad.Once I Was A Clever Boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01367322665145704342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881811987987045711.post-66964449547329177372020-09-04T13:21:22.172+01:002020-09-04T13:21:22.172+01:00Thank you for this. I had thought about mentioning...Thank you for this. I had thought about mentioning the relics but rather assumed that the community will take those with them to their new home. That said to take them away from the chapels where they are kept, such as the skull of St Thomas of Hereford kept in the easternmost chapel as I recall would be a new “Stripping of the Altars“. It is terribly sad.Once I Was A Clever Boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01367322665145704342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881811987987045711.post-38030106903239606352020-09-04T11:12:58.667+01:002020-09-04T11:12:58.667+01:00Downside also has an extremely important collectio...Downside also has an extremely important collection of relics, probably equal if not better than the Oxford Oratory. It includes the only known relic of St Anne Line and the largest section of the Holy Cross in the UK. I am a little concerned what will happen to this.Ritahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15120333351409730480noreply@blogger.com