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Wherefore seeing we also our Blessed Savior was born into are compassed about with the world. so great a cloud of witnesses, We can think of this month as let us lay aside every weight, one of plenitude and growth, and the sin which doth so one filled with a richness of easily beset us, and let us and feasts, and indeed run with patience the race augustus actually derives its that is set before us. Hebrews 12:1 meanings from the notion of ‘growth’3 or ‘increase’, the stem augere ‘ In 27 b c the Roman Senate conferred of to make something ’ the special epithet augustus grow cf. augment and more ‘majestic, sublime’ on Gaius distantly augur and auxiliary. So in English we have two Octavianus, the grandnephew, homographs which differ in adopted son and heir of Julius meaning, pronunciation and Cæsar, whose name he also had stress: the month of Aúgust and incorporated into his own. The the adjective augúst. The Coronation of the , apse mosaic Senate did this out of gratitude (Jacopo Torriti, sæc.XIII) from Santa Maria The Assumption of the Most Blessed and in recognition of Octavian’s Maggiore. Virgin occupies the very center having restored stability to the of the month of August, as a octave day of the Assumption to empire after the fifteen years of major feast and holyday of the feast of the Immaculate Heart of war and civil strife which had obligation. In many traditions Mary. That feast has since moved ensued upon the assassination of this time serves for the blessing to a memorial on the day (always Julius Cæsar. of the first harvest of grapes. a Saturday) following the feast In 8 b c the Roman Senate renamed 4 The Feast of the Assumption of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. ‘ ’ 1 the sixth month , Sextilis, as used even to have its own Augustus. And so we find ourselves octave, and even today the One cannot help but view the mid- ‘ here in the noble, distinguished, calendar of the Roman Church August feast of the Assumption of ’ exalted month, named after the has designated 22 August, the the Most Blessed Virgin as a rock- Emperor whose reign intiated an eighth day, as the feast of the solid bastion bewteen Catholic ‘ extended period when all the Queenship of Mary. From 1944 belief and Protestant rejectionism. ’2 world was in peace and in which Pope Pius XII had dedicated the On the one hand Martin Luther 1 In earliest Roman times the calendar dismissed it soundly, for example had ten months and began in March, traditional chant of the Christmas in a 1544 sermon on Luke 2: hence what became our August occupied proclamation phrases it. the sixth position. 3 In very rough semantic terms: 4 This always falls on the Friday after 2 Toto urbe in pace composito as the ‘bigger’ becomes ‘better’. the Octave of Corpus Christi. Page 2 Contra Mundum

The celebration of the Interestingly, and speaking of the ascension of Mary current month of August, the Holy into Heaven is totally Father’s text cannot resist listing papist, full of idolatry as one of the three accompanying and established without goals of this proclamation: the ground in the Scriptures. phrase ad eiusdem augustae Matris For that reason we ‘ have dropped it in augendam gloriam for the increase our churches…But we of the glory of that same august Mother’ with a play on the Christians know of no SOLEMN EVENSONG ON ascension into Heaven common origin of augustus and which we can celebrate augere as mentioned above. CAPE COD except the one, that of our Anglican Use Evensong & dear Lord, Jesus Christ.5 In our country, sadly, the third great Sermon Whereas, on the other hand, we Marian feast in August passes have the solemn proclamation almost unnoticed on the fifth Sunday, August 2, 2015 of the Asssumption of Mary into of August: the Dedication of the Church Heaven as infallible Catholic Basilica of St Mary Major, the most East Falmouth, Massachusetts doctrine in 1950 by Pope Pius beautiful and largest of all the 26 5:00 o’clock XII: Marian churches in . Under Father Bradford will be [B]y the authority of the of Juno, officiant and preacher. our Lord Jesus Christ, queen of the pagan gods, on the Music provided by The Schola of the Blessed Apostles Cantorum of Falmouth and friends Peter and Paul, and by Esquiline yielded to a first church on the site, hence the still common Pat Harcourt, director our own authority, we James S. Reedy, organist. pronounce, declare, and designation Basilica Liberiana. We also know it as the Sixtina after define it to be a divinely established as their heir. revealed dogma: that the pope who built the present Giovanni related this the Immaculate Mother structure, as ad Præsepe (of the to Pope Liberius, who of God, the ever Virgin Manger, after relics brought there confirmed that he had Mary, having completed in the seventh century), and, in experienced the same in a the course of her earthly its most miraculous cast, ad Nives dream.7 life, was assumed body (Our Lady of the Snow): This magnificently appointed and soul into heavenly So on the Nones of August, glory. church, contains overwhelming which tend to be the hottest Hence if anyone, which fifth-century mosaics informed in the City, snow covered God forbid, should dare by the declarations of the a part of the Esquiline hill. willfully to deny or to (431 a d ) On that night the Mother of call into doubt that which which affirmed the cherished God told Giovanni [Patrizio] we have defined, let him and his wife separately that status of Mary as Mother of know that he has fallen they should build a church, God (). Since at least away completely from which would be dedicated the sixth century the much the divine and Catholic in the name of Virgin Mary, beloved icon Salus populi Romani Faith.6 on the place which they (the Protectress of the Roman 5 Das Fest von der Hymelfart Marie saw covered in snow. For ist durch auß Bäpstisch, das ist vol thus did she desire to be 7 Nonis igitur Augusti, quo tempore in Abgötterey unnd one grundt der Schrifft urbe maximi calores esse solent, noctu eingesetzt. Derhalben haben wirs in revelatum dogma esse : Immaculatam nix partem collis Exquilini contexit. Qua unsern Kirchen fallen lassen…Aber wir Deiparam semper Virginem Mariam, nocte Dei Mater separatim Joannem et Christen wissen von keiner Hymelfart, expleto terrestris vitae cursu, fuisse corpore conjugem in somnis admonuit, ut quem der wir geniessen können, denn von et anima ad caelestem gloriam assumptam. locum nive conspersum viderent, in den eynigen unsers lieben Herrn Christi Quamobrem, si quis, quod Deus avertat, id eo ecclesiam ædificarent, quæ Mariæ Jesu. WA52.681 vel negare, vel in dubium vocare voluntarie Virginis nomine dedicaretur: se enim 6 [A]uctoritate Domini Nostri Iesu ausus fuerit, quod a Nobis definitum ita velle ab ipsis hæredem institui. Quod Christi, Beatorum Apostolorum Petri est, noverit se a divina ac catholica fide Joannes ad Liberium pontificem detulit, et Pauli ac Nostra pronuntiamus, prorsus defecisse. —Constitutio apostolica qui idem per somnium sibi contigisse declaramus et definimus divinitus Munificentissimus Deus (1950-10-30) affirmavit. Contra Mundum Page 3

people) has resided in this church. department, themed on St their own feast days but grouped Ignatius Loyola said his first Mass Petersburg, has at its door an together on 8 August as a popular here, and personally icon of St Peter freed from his and local devotion, especially in visted here almost immediately chains, as a symbol of Communist Germany. Here their names and after his election. Leningrad liberated and returning associations: In this way the month of August to its Christian heritage and to the Agathius (headache), receives a basic framework of three protection of St Peter. Barbara (lightning, fire, explosion, fever, sudden death), Marian feasts separated by eight Blaise (throat illness, domestic and six days respectively and set But the August connections continue animals), toward the beginning, middle and because that same Pope Sixtus III Catherine of Alexandria (philosophers, end of the month: carried on correspondence (Epp. wheelwrights, sudden death) 5 Dedication of the Basilica of St Mary 191, 194) with another August Christopher (bubonic plague, travelling) Major saint, the great church father 15 Assumption of the Most Blessed Cyriacus (deathbed temptations) Virgin Augustine (Augustinus, Austin, Denis (headache, rabies) 22 Immaculate Heart/Queenship of 28 August). The whole question Erasmus (Elmo, intestinal ailments) Mary of Pelagianism in all its forms, Eustace (epilepsy, insanity, sterility ) The inscription over the apse of St George (soldiers, domestic animals) the interrelation of grace and Giles (Aegidius, plague, good Mary Major reads: Xystus episcopus predestination, finds a full airing confession, cripples, beggars, 8 plebi Dei . This dedication refers to in the correspondence related to blacksmiths) Sixtus III, who restored the church Sixtus III, he of St Mary Major Margaret of Antioch (childbirth, beginning in 432 and who has a and St Peter in Chains. To this we demonic possession) Pantaleon (physicians, cancer, feast in the month of August, on owe the great observation that in tuberculosis) th the 19 . This same pope brings crowning our merits, God crowns Vitus (Guy, epilepsy, lightning, a second August connection His own gifts. domestic animals) through the other major church The Beheading of (29 which he dedicated in Rome, The catalogue of August continues August) the minor basilica St Peter in with some hundred feasts and Various commendable Tudor and Chains9. John XXIII removed the saints worth exploring and linked Stuart English strewn feast (1 August) from the Roman to one another in numerous throughout the month, including: calendar but it still remains in the fascinating ways to build that Thomas Welbourn, William Brown, traditional Tridentine calendar interwoven ‘cloud of witnesses’ John Felton, William Freeman (Mason), William Lacey, Richard Kirkman, and, perhaps most tellingly for that surrounds us this month, just John Kemble, Thomas Percy, John this congregation, the fourth verse to mention a few highlights: Wall (Johnson, Webb, Dormer), of Charles Wesley’s hymn And can the Transfiguration (6 August); Lewis, William Dean, William Gunter, it be that I should gain celebrates his Dominic (6 August, moved to 4 Robert Morton, Hugh More, Thomas conversion as a parallel with St Holford (Acton, Bude), James Claxton August, moved to 8 August); (Clarkson), Thomas Felton, Richard Peter being freed from his chains: (20 August); Leigh (Garth), Edward Shelley, Richard Long my imprisoned spirit lay the Apostle Bartholomew (24 Martin, Richard Flower, (Lloyd), Fast bound in sin and nature’s night; Margaret Ward, John Roche, William Thine eye diffused a quick’ning ray, August); Hartley, John Hewett (Weldon, Savell), I woke, the dungeon flamed with light; (23 August); , William Way (Flower), My chains fell off, my heart was free; (Chiara) (12 August, Edmund Arrowsmith, Richard Herbst I rose, went forth and followed Thee. Amazing love! how can it be moved to 11 August); The August litany could continue That Thou, my God, should die for Alphonsus de’ Liguori (2 August) with personages such as Maximus me? Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney, the the Confessor, Oswald of ’ John Newton s Amazing grace (1779) of parochial clergy (8 Northumbria, , Helen, also owes a debt to this Petrine- August moved to 2 August ); mother of Constantine, on and on, ’ inspired hymn of Wesley s (1738). King Louis of France (25 August) and where does one stop? But we certainly should not forget two The seminar room in my Jean Eudes (19 August, same day as August saints whose churches Sixtus III) 8 Sixtus the bishop, to the people of God in Brookline have sheltered this The 14 Holy Helpers (Nothelfer, 9 Sancti Petri in Vincula / San Pietro in Congregation of Saint Athanasius, Vincoli. For the narrative cf. Acts 12. die Vierzehnheiligen), each with Page 4 Contra Mundum

namely Aidan of Lindisfarne (†851, Primaldi10 all 800 held to their in Boston College. Jay has been 31 August) the Irish monk who Catholic faith and suffered spending time this summer on a brought an effective Christianity martyrdom in a mass beheading fellowship in Romania. from Iona to the north of England on the Hill of Minerva. In May 2013 Ñ Many thanks to Steve Cavanaugh at the invitation of King Oswald, the newly elected Pope Francis and Judie Bradford for providing a and the Lawrence (†258, pronounced the of 10 August), the Roman deacon the martyrs of . luncheon hosted in the Bradford’s renowned both for presenting This month of August, which, West Roxbury home prior to the poor and underprivileged in in the past century to which evensong on July 12th. The evensong his care to an avaricious Roman most of us belong, saw the was held in St. Theresa’s Church, prefect as the ‘true treasure’ of beginning of the Great World which is air conditioned. the Church, and also for being War and a cataclysmic ending Our summer altar flower chart consequently roasted to death on a of the Second, offers to faithful Ñ large gridiron, which has become Catholics, however, a richness still has a few spaces for you to sign the symbol of his martyrdom. His of example and inspiration in up to provide Sunday flowers. The name appears even in the Canon the many saints, the ‘cloud of sign-up list is available at Sunday of the Mass. witnesses’ from whom we not coffee hours. Finally, we might ask “What else only can learn but also to whom Ñ Contra Mundum, the parish is new?” While the so-called we, as Catholics, can pray for paper, is now seventeen years old. Islamic State and its followers intercession. ravage the Christian communities All ye holy saints of August, pray This monthly publication is enjoyed of the Middle East in our time for us! by many far beyond the local area. with mass beheadings and cruel ¶ The Revd. Dcn. Connolly David Burt and Steve Cavanaugh slaughters, the feast of Antonio is incardinated as Archdeacon in the have been the editors. Primaldi and the Armenian Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady Ñ Friends of the Unborn in Quincy on 14 August reminds us that of Nareg in the United States and Canada have sent a thank-you for money this has all happened before and and teaches linguistics in Boston College. on equally barbaric and massive He assists frequently in the Anglican Use. raised from parishioners for Eva scales in the name of . His most recent contribution to Contra Murphy’s participation in the March Mundum was in March 2015. th Pope Benedict XVI made known for Life held June 28 . his intention to resign the papacy Ñ Father Bradford occasionally is at a consistory actually called 10 variously also Primaldo or Pezzula celebrant of the Ordinariate Mass to announce the date for the provided by the St. Gregory the canonization of 800 martyrs SHORT NOTES of Otranto, led by Antonio Great Parish in Stoneham, most th Primaldi in 1480. Otranto fell Ñ Our parishioner Leslie Hunt recently on July 26 , and again on to an invading Turkish force, and his wife Jennifer were at Mass August 16th. The Mass is Sunday at following a fifteen-day siege on July 12th, a first visit in many 9:00 a.m. which delayed the Turkish weeks since Les suffered some Ñ The Solemnity of the advance and ultimately may have severe side effects in his battle with Transfiguration, August 6th, is a saved by holding back the Parkinsons disease. Members of planned direct march on Rome. Thursday this year. Masses in St. the congregation offer a prayer for After a public beheading of Theresa of Avila Church are at 6:45 the archibishop and bishop in Les, invoking the intercession of a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Archbishop Sheen, every Friday the cathedral and a slaughter Ñ The Solemnity of the Assumption evening at 7:00 p.m. or enslavement of much of of the Blessed Virgin Mary is August the populace, the Turkish Ñ Members of the congregation 15th, a Saturday this year. Because it commander, Gedik Ahmed have received postcards from Jay Pasha specifically ordered 800 falls on a Saturday, the obligation Chin, who was a faithful altar server men to submit to Islam or die. to assist at Mass is abrogated in the Encouraged by a tailor, Antonio during his undergraduate years United States. Contra Mundum Page 5

Ñ The Anglican Use Mass on number is about 1.5 billion. They denominations. have consistently and persistently Saturday is at 8:00 a.m. at the To the best of my knowledge, the over centuries given her a place Marian altar in the main church in most organized and committed core second only to her son, Jesus the St. Theresa of Avila Parish, West of ecumenically-minded Christians Roxbury. Christ. can be found in the Ecumenical Ñ Our parishioners Tom and Anne Unknowingly, my calling into Society of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Lloyd, who have lived in Front this area began in 1966, as I was Its aim is “to show that, in Mary, Royal, Virginia for seventeen years, preparing for a women’s meeting. At Christians of many traditions find suffered the complete loss of their that time I was an associate pastor at a focus in their search for unity.” I house from a lightning strike on June College Avenue United Methodist have served on the board of directors 1st. They were away at the time. Anne Church in Muncie. Soon thereafter, for some years and made special reports that their insurance is taking I published a feature in 1969 in the presentations in various parts of the good care of them and they plan to Queen of All Hearts for the Montfort nation. rebuild. Their address is: Dr. & Mrs. Fathers that eventually became a Thomas L. Lloyd, 901 Windy Way, dramatic reading, A Mother and ESBVM, with somewhat more Front Royal, VA 22630-6018. Her Infant Son, for CSS Publishing than 100 members and only a dozen Co. It became a best seller for them or so totally committed, presented Ñ On September 20th we will join St. and circulated widely. However that their First International Congress Paul’s Anglican Church, Brockton, was only a beginning. at the University of Pittsburgh in in offering our tenth annual the summer of 2008. Several of In 1983 The Criterion (official Evensong for the feast of Our Lady us presented essays that have now of Walsingham. These services are newspaper for the Archdiocese of been published in Mary for the Love at 4:00 p.m. in the Chapel of Mary Indianapolis) published my feature and Glory of God. on the Stonehill College campus, Devotion to Mary Should Transcend North Easton. Denominations, which was picked Perhaps the major opposition to up by the Catholic media and became our ministry are those who insist UNITY THROUGH of international interest. This led to Catholics and Orthodox worship a number of speaking engagements Mary—putting her ahead of MARY that included a keynote address at our Savior and Lord—and they s the key to Christian unity Marian College in Fond du Lac, want no part of that. Frankly, my Iin our day and time the Blessed Wisconsin. While that interest from experience tells me the two groups Virgin Mary? some grew, it was not lasting. Yet, mentioned don’t want any part of For some of us, apparently few in commitment among a few of us worshipping her either. Stereotypes number but growing, the answer would not be denied. and prejudices are continually is a rousing “yes.” Our strongly Time magazine in its March 21, 2005 with us. To get through this often affirmative response is built upon issue did a cover story “Hail Mary: debilitating negative state of affairs, decades of positive signs that the Catholics have long revered her, but 600 million or so Protestants are now Protestants are finding their taking another look at our dear own reasons to celebrate the mother Mother Mary and her place in the of Jesus” by David Van Biema. A Christian faith. few of us were called, interviewed, We do this in light of the fact the and pictured in that issue. To be sure, ancient body of believers, both even with the millions who read Roman Catholic and Orthodox, the magazine, this certainly did not have given her special attention that create a mass movement to elevate included devotion and veneration. the Blessed Virgin Mary across the Such ancient groups combined Protestant spectrum of hundreds of Dr. Donald Charles Lacy (1933-2012) Page 6 Contra Mundum we are called to be humble and special place, the same is true of the THE ACCESSIBLE teachable with the Holy Spirit as our Blessed Virgin Mary. Her presence guide. To be sure, there is enough throughout the ages may have been GOD blame to go around for Christians more influential than all the ne characteristic ignoring one another, fighting combined. Oof revealed religion is it among themselves, and calling one Donald Charles Lacy does away with the sense of God another nasty names. being remote. In natural religion ¶ Dr. Lacy was a Methodist clergyman I have been an ecumenically based in Indiana. Among other periodicals, man can only infer his creator in minded United Methodist pastor his articles appeared in The Catholic the phenomena surrounding him: for more than 50 years, coming to Response and in our parish paper. He weather, terrain, sex, and pestilence. believe our Lord’s mother is the key was a friend fo Father Bradford’s and had Classical Greek mythology and the preached in several of his parishes. This animist cults of Africa are examples. to Christian unity in our day and article appeared in The Star Press, Muncie, time. This is the work of the Holy Indiana, on December 18, 2011. But then came the revelation of Spirit. Almighty God to and the beginning of what we call revealed Very briefly, why? MORE ABOUT religion. One, who has been with the “one, CARDINAL What was revealed is God is one, holy, catholic, apostolic” Church and the world as a whole is the (Nicene Creed, said by the majority BERULLE expression of His single divine of Christians throughout the world) ardinal de Berulle will. From the beginning of the with her Son and the apostles from (1575–1629) was a founder of relationship with Abraham and the beginning? C “the French school of spirituality.” Almighty God the will of God was Two, who provides us with a He was a colleague of St. Francis understood to be good and that God model of feminism—so desparately de Sales, and spiritual director to St. required His creatures to be good. needed today—that gives Christians Vincent de Paul. He also introduced “Be ye holy for I the Lord your God a powerful holiness that even the Discalced Carmelite nuns of am holy.” In order for His creatures strong and obstinate men will kneel Teresa of Avila to France. to achieve holiness Almighty God before? had to become accessible to souls Cardinal Berulle obtained the in a permanent and reliable way. Three, who better to lead us to necessary dispensations so Princess the Christ than the one person who Henrietta Maria (1609–1669), In the full revelation of God in could also say this is my body and daughter of King Henry IV of Christ, “The Word was made flesh blood? France, could marry King Charles and dwelt among us.” Jesus Christ, God Incarnate, is the pinnacle Perhaps all who profess Jesus I of England, who was protestant. of accessibility with the Divine. Christ as Savior and Lord should Because she was Catholic, she was From this vantage point we enjoy, come together and say over and never crowned. Cardinal Berulle you and I do not expect the Old over again the “Hail, Mary.” She is accompanied Henrietta Maria to Testament system to contain more not in competition with her Son for England, serving for a year as her than a limited accessibility to God. first place in our faith. Pope John chaplain. She was mother of the But it is there. Paul II said: “Mary’s role is to make next two kings of England who both her Son shine, to lead to him and to converted to Catholicism, Charles II All through the Old Testament help welcome him.” on his deathbed, and James II, who Scriptures there is the conviction was deposed in 1688. James was the man may freely approach God. The My friends, if God the Father had last Catholic monarch of England. only barrier to this accessibility is not chosen her to be his mother, ¶ An excerpt taken from the Cardinal’s A man’s obstinate continuation in sin. we would likely never have heard Word in Season appeared in last month’s Almighty God is always proclaimed of her. We all belong to Christ and parish paper. Several asked for more as ready to receive the repentant and Christ belongs to us. By virtue of her information. Contra Mundum Page 7 be the refuge of those who are in of the church building as The sorrow and suffering. Your favorite House of God makes it much The Congregation Old Testament stories will attest to more than a meeting place of of Saint Athanasius this fact. people, which is the Protestant For us who have the wonderfully- and Muslim emphasis, but the The Revd. accessible Savior in the Mass, in much more important place apart Richard Sterling Bradford, the Tabernacle, and in Benediction, where people may meet God. It is Chaplain we recognize and appreciate, in the The House of God because God’s promised presence is there. And Saint Lawrence Church Old Testament experience, God’s 774 Boylston Ave. presence specifically in the Temple. our time in the Lord’s Presence Characteristics of this presence are is the most cherished of all our Chestnut Hill, Mass. found repeatedly in the Psalms, the possessions. (Parking lot behind church.) Old Testament’s hymn book. “My Father Bradford Sundays 11:30 a.m. soul hath a desire and longing to ¶ This sermon was preached at Anglican Sung Mass enter into the courts of the Lord, Use Evensong & Benediction in St. and my heart and my flesh rejoice in Theresa of Avila Church, West Roxbury, Fellowship and Coffee in the the living God.” And again, “When on Sunday, July 12, 2015. Undercroft after Mass I went into the sanctuary of God, THE MOST Rectory: then I understood.” CHRISTIAN KING 767 West Roxbury Pkwy. Two thousand years before the Boston, MA 02132-2121 Incarnation it was the experience n incident is related of and the people he led Awhich shows at once the Tel/Fax: (617) 325-5232 that the glory of the Lord filled reproaches to which Saint Louis http://www.locutor.net the tabernacle. A thousand years was exposed, and the patience out of his court, and afterwards sent later King David and his subjects with which he bore them. A one of his chamberlains to console had the same experience. And at certain woman who was pleading here grievances with a present of the consecration of the Temple of in his court cried out to him one money. we read the same. day as he came to take his seat: “Fie! Fie! Should you be king of But if he could not become a monk And so Benediction, which comes France? Better another than you, in name and profession, he led a out of the rich devotional spirituality for you are naught but one of the life as severe and self-denying, and of the Middle Ages, has a long preaching friars, and a clerk and a almost as assiduous in prayer and and distinguished pedigree in the shaveling. Great evil is it that you fasting and penance, as if he had desire of Almighty God to be with are king, and great wonder that been immured in a cloister under His people. You and I can never you are not thrust forth from the the most rigid rule of austerity. It overestimate in praise the greatness realm.” Louis heard her out, then was his custom to rise before dawn of the privilege we have been given. answered smiling, “Assuredly to hear matins in his chapel, going We can approach Our Blessed you say sooth; I am not worthy and returning in silence so as not Lord in the Tabernacle, making a to be king; and, if it had been to wak the knights who slept in his Holy Hour during Exposition, and God’s leasure, it would be better chamber. at Benediction. The very concept another should be so, who knew Frederick Perry better how to govern the realm”; and was so far from resenting an ¶ This excerpt is taken from Perry’s Saint insult which most rulers of the Louis, The Most Christian King, published in 1902 by G.P. Putnam’s Sons. His feast is time would have punished with August 25th, a Tuesday this year. Frederick savage cruelty that he forbade the Perry was a Fellow of All Souls’ College, yeomen to touch her or put her Oxford. 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St. Lawrence Church, 774 Boylston Street (Route 9). Park in the church parking lot behind the Church, off of Reservoir Rd. Chestnut Hill Directions by Car: From the North or South: Route 128 to Route 9. At signal for Reservoir Channing Road Road, take right; Church parking lot is a short Eliot St. Av distance on left. e From Boston: From Stuart/Kneeland St., turn left onto Park Plaza. Drive for 0.2 miles. Park Plaza Boylston St. (Rte 9) becomes St James Avenue. Drive for 0.3 miles. Lee St. Brookline Turn slight left onto ramp. Drive for 0.1 miles. Go Reservoir straight on Route-9. Drive for 3.5 miles. Turn left Reser onto Heath Street. Drive for 0.1 miles. Go straight voir Rd Heath St. on Reservoir Road. Drive for 0.1 miles. Parking . lot is on your right. Directions by Public Transportation: From Ken- more Square station board Bus #60, which stops in Low front of the Church. Alternatively, the Church is a ell Lane 15-minute walk from the Cleveland Circle station St Lawrence Church on the Green Line C-branch. Heath St.

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