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Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Martin Luther excommunicated by Ethelred of Wessex defeated by New Year’s Day Spiritual Guide 1833 Pope Leo X 1521 the Danes at Reading 871 Guru Singh’s birthday (Sikh) 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

John George, Byzantine Emperor Zeno William Laud, Occupation of Ruhr by Aelred of Hexham, The Epiphany Lucian of Antioch, Martyr 312 Elector of Brandenburg 1598 flees Constantinople 475 Archbishop of 1645 French and Belgian forces 1923 Abbot of Rievaulx 1167 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 George Fox, Founder of the Quakers 1691 Eivind Berggrav , Lutheran, Coronation of Queen Elizabeth Battle of Cape St Vincent, Admiral Mungo (Kentigern) of Glasgow Norwegian resistance leader 1958 at Westminster Abbey 1559 Rodney defeats Spanish fleet 1780 Antony of Egypt, Hermit 356 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester 1095 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome 304 Burns Night Richard Rolle of Hampole, Vincent of Saragossa, Battle of Rorke’s Drift, Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Timothy and Titus, Spiritual Writer 1349 Tu B'Shevat (Arbor Day) (Jewish) Deacon, first Martyr of Spain 304 Anglo Zulu war 1879 Teacher of the Faith 1632 Conversion of St Paul Companions of Paul 27 28 29 30 31

John McCrae, 1st World War soldier Andrei Rublev, Guy Fawkes hung, drawn and Holocaust Memorial Day and poet 1918 painter of Orthodox icons 1427 King Charles the Martyr 1649 quartered 1606

SMTWT F S DECEMBER 2018 FEBRUARY SMTWT F S 1 12 2345678 3456789 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 24 25 26 27 28 30 31 Church House, Abbey Street, Armagh Photo: Paul Eliasberg VE RI AS TAS PIET LIBERTAS February

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The Presentation of Christ in the Brigid, Abbess of Kildare c.525 Temple (Candlemas) 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Joseph Priestley, Chinese New Year - Year of the Pig Theologian and Scientist 1804 Septimius Severus, Emperor of Vladimir Lossky, Cuthmann of Steyning, Anglo Saxon Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg 865 Rome, died Eboracum 211 Thomas Carlyle, Historian 1881 George VI, King Emperor 1952 Orthodox Theologian 1958 hermit and church builder c.681 Teilo, Bishop of Llandaff c.560 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

Henry VIII recognised as supreme First (secret) demonstration of radar Thomas Bray, founder of the SPCK Sarcophagus of Tutankhamun HMS Dreadnought launched 1906 head of the 1531 by Robert Watson-Watt 1935 Massacre at Glencoe 1692 Valentine, Martyr at Rome c 269 and the SPG 1730 discovered by Howard Carter 1923 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Henry Drummond, banker and The Gestapo capture the White Rose Closure of pagan temples by founding member of Catholic Alexander Gordon, British and Indian forces take Polycarp, Septuagesima Munich students 1943 Emperor Constantius II 356 Apostolic church 1860 Minister and Historian 1931 Ramree Island, Burma 1945 Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr c.155 24 25 26 27 28

Broerius Brorius theologian Aethelbert of Kent, first English King Injunction orders Galileo to abandon George Herbert, Cuauhtémoc, (Pensive Christian) 1799 to convert to Christianity 597 his belief in heliocentrism 1616 Priest and Poet 1633 last Aztec Emperor 1525

SMTWT F S JANUARY MARCH SMTWT F S 12345 12 678910 11 12 3456789 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 27 28 29 30 31 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Gerbera (African Daisy) Photo: Graham Bonham VE RI AS TAS PIET LIBERTAS March

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 John Wesley founder of Methodism 1791

David, Bishop of Menevia, Chad, Patron of Wales c 601 Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary 672 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Maha Shivaratri (Hindu) Shrove Tuesday Quinquagesima Perpetua, Thomas Starr King, First flight of Supermarine Spitfire Felicity and their companions, Felix of Burgundy, Hinamatsuri (Japan) American Unitarian 1864 1936 Ash Wednesday Martyrs at Carthage 203 first Bishop of the East Angles c.648 The Forty Martyrs of Sebaste 320 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Commonwealth Day

Cheesefare (Forgiveness) Sunday Matthias Flacius, Istrian theologian Anne Frank, Richard Johnson, Prince John Sigismund, Adalbert, Archbishop of Bremen- (Orthodox) and reformer, 1574 diarist of the Holocaust, 1945 first Christian cleric in Australia 1827 Reformer 1571 Abdication of Czar Nicolas II 1917 Hamburg 1072

17 18 19 20 21 Purim (Jewish) 22 23 Holi (Hindu) Spring Equinox Anne Hutchinson, religious Patrick, Thomas Ken, non-juring bishop and Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop dissident, expelled from Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès Bishop, Patron of Ireland c.460 Cyril, Bishop of Jerusalem 386 hymn writer 1711 of Lindisfarne, Bishop 687 of Canterbury, Martyr 1556 Massachusetts Bay Colony 1638 (Maronite Church) 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Oscar Romero, Richard Allen, Archbishop of San Salvador, first African American ordained by British forces raid the dry dock of the Konrad Mutian, Martyr 1980 Annunciation of Our Lady: Lady Day Methodist-Episcopal church 1831 George Gilbert Scott, Architect 1878 Normandie at St Nazaire 1942 Charles Wesley 1788 German humanist 1526 31 Mothering Sunday

BST begins – clocks go back

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Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, Nicephorus I, David Blondel, theologian, politician and Charles II issues Ecumenical Patriarch of French protestant scholar, April Fools’ Day philanthropist 1910 Richard of Chichester, Bishop 1253 Declaration of Breda 1660 Constantinople 828 clergyman and historian 1655 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Seneca the Younger, Bach’s St John Passion Dedication of Mikael Agricola, theologian and William of Ockham, George Augustus Selwyn, Roman philosopher, premieres in Leipzig 1724 Winchester Cathedral 1083 founder of literary Finnish 1557 Friar, Philosopher 1347 first Bishop of New Zealand 1878 statesman and dramatist 65 Ramanavami (Hindu) 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Good Friday

Alphege, , Palm Sunday Sinking of Titanic 1912 Maundy Thursday Martyr 1012 First Day of Passover (Jewish)

21 Easter Day 22 23 24 25 26 27 Birth of James Martineau 1805 Mark the Evangelist Christina Rossetti, Poet 1894 Basque town of Guernica Birthday of HM Queen Elizabeth Bank Holiday George, Patron of England , first Bishop at St Paul’s 624 Anzac Day destroyed by Luftwaffe 1937 Final Day of Passover 28 29 30 Moorish troops land at Gibraltar Catherine of Siena, to begin their invasion Low Sunday Teacher of the Faith 1380 of the Iberian Peninsula 711

SMTWT F S MARCH MAY SMTWT F S 12 1234 3456789 5678910 11 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 26 27 28 29 30 31 31 A celebration of famous Unitarians on Dunas Day, Torockó, Romania Photo: Sára Bíró VE RI AS TAS PIET LIBERTAS May

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 Charlie Soong, Chinese Methodist John Wycliffe and Jan Hus David Livingstone, Joan Bocher, missionary involved in the declared as heretics at the Explorer, Missionary 1873 Anabaptist, Martyr 1550 Xinhai Revolution of 1911 Council of Constance 1415 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Bank Holiday UK John Herschel, John Flynn of the Inland, Presbyter, Birth of Henry Dunant, William Alexander Smith, cataloguer of southern hemisphere Australian Outback pioneer 1951 Ramadan starts (Islamic) Sinking of RMS Lusitania 1915 Founder of the Red Cross 1828 Yom HaAtzma'ut (Jewish) Founder of the Boys’ Brigade 1914 constellations 1871 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Exhumed corpse of Edward Jenner administers the first Anabaptist theologian David Jorisz inoculation against smallpox, Dmitry of Uglich 1591 Caroline Chisholm, Relief of Mafeking, Cape Colony John Masefield, poet 1967 burned for heresy, Basel 1559 Berkeley, Gloucs. 1796 (Eastern Orthodox) Social Reformer 1877 (2nd Anglo-Boer War) 1900 Vesak - Buddha Day 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Elizabeth Poole, Anne Boleyn beheaded in Joseph Blanco White, Puritan pioneer in Plymouth colony William Temple Gairdner, John and Charles Wesley, Edict of Worms outlaws the Tower of London 1536 Theologian 1841 Massachusetts, 1664 Missionary 1928 Lag BaOmer (Jewish) 1791 and 1788 Martin Luther and his followers 1521 26 27 28 29 30 31 604 Alan Turing submits ‘On Computable Feast of the Visitation of Rogation Sunday Bank Holiday Numbers’ for publication 1936 Percy Dearmer, Priest, Liturgist 1936 Ascension Day Mary and Elizabeth

SMTWT F S APRIL JUNE SMTWT F S 123456 1 78910 11 12 13 2345678 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 28 29 30 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 St John’s Co-Cathedral, Valletta, Malta Photo: Anne Wild VE RI AS TAS PIET LIBERTAS June

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 Justin, Martyr at Rome c.165

Helen Keller, Philanthropist 1968 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Ini Kopuria, Gerard Manly Hopkins, Coronation Day Savitri Pooja (Hindu) Eid-al-Fitr (End of Ramadan - Islamic) Boniface, Archbishop 754 Evangelist in Melanesia 1945 Battle of Messines begins 1917 Priest, Poet 1889 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Pentecost (Whit Sunday) Enmegahbowh, German air raid on London by Wat Tyler, leader of Peasants' Revolt, Columba, Abbot of Iona 597 Frederick Delius, Composer 1934 Barnabas the Apostle Priest, American Episcopal 1902 Gotha bombers kills 162 1917 Richard Baxter, Puritan Divine 1691 beheaded 1381 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Fathers’ Day Corpus Christi William Branwhite Clarke, Priest, Geologist 1878 John Colenso, Bishop of Natal 1883 Alban, first Martyr of Britain c. 250 23 24 25 26 27 28 29

George MacLeod, Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons, Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely c.678 The Birth of John the Baptist Founder of Iona Community 1991 Teacher of the Faith c.200 Peter and Paul, Apostles 30

Adolf of Osnabrück 1222

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Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 Independence Day (USA) Thomas More, Scholar, Charles Venn Pilcher, and John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, Battle of Somme begins 1916 Battle of Marston Moor 1644 Thomas the Apostle Bishop, Hymn-writer 1961 Martyrs 1535 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

Thomas Hooker, Minister, Stephen Langton, Benedict of Nursia, Battle of the Boyne Founder of Connecticut 1647 Auspicius of Trier c.130 Archbishop of Canterbury 1228 Abbot of Monte Cassino c.550 (Bank Holiday Northern Ireland) Obon (Buddhist) 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury 1099 Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, Margaret of Antioch, John Keble, Tractarian 1866 , Bishop of Winchester c.862 Asala - Dharma Day (Buddhist) Scillitan Martyrs, Carthage 180 Dean of Westminster, Writer 1881 Teacher of the Faith c.394 Martyr, 4th century 21 22 23 24 25 26 27

Petrus Lombardus, Brooke Foss Westcott, Theologian and Bishop 1160 Mary Magdalene Christina the Astonishing 1224 James the Apostle Joachim, Father of Mary Bishop of Durham, Teacher 1901 28 29 30 31 Antonio Vivaldi 1741 Thomas Dick, William Wilberforce, Battle of Passchendaele Johann Sebastian Bach 1750 Astronomer, Minister 1857 Social Reformer 1833 (Third Ypres) begins 1917

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Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 Lammas Day Simon Knéfacz, Joseph of Arimathea Basil the Blessed (Russian Orthodox) Croatian monk, Author 1819 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Laurence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr 258 Oswald, King of Northumbria, Mary Sumner, Martyr 642 The Transfiguration of Our Lord Rabindranath Tagore, Poet 1941 Founder of the Mothers’ Union 1921 Waqf al Arafa - Hajj (Islamic) 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

John Henry Newman, Roger Schutz,founder of Priest, Tractarian 1890 Octavia Hill, Social Reformer 1912 Maximilian Kolbe, Friar, Martyr 1941 The Blessed Virgin Mary the Taize Community 2005 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 William and Catherine Booth, Increase Mather, Founders of the Salvation Army Boston Congregational Minister, Trial of the Pendle Witches 1612 1912 and 1890 Author 1723 Bartholomew the Apostle 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Bank Holiday Aidan, Hundred Years’ War: Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Bishop of Lindisfarne, James Watt, Engineer 1819 Battle of Crécy 1346 Teacher of the Faith 430 John Bunyan 1688 Missionary 651

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Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth on Suleiman the Magnificent, Giles of Provence, Hermit c.710 Ganesh Chaturthi (Hindu) Teacher of the Faith 604 Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne 687 Elizabeth, Mother of John the Baptist the Mayflower 1620 Ottoman Sultan 1566 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

Charles Lowder, Founder of the Thomas Wolsey Melisende, John Chrysostom, First V2 rocket hits London 1944 Society of the Holy Cross 1880 invested as a Cardinal 1515 Queen of Jerusalem 1161 Bishop of Constantinople 407 Holy Cross Day 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Ninian, Cyprian, Bishop of Galloway, Hildegard, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr 258 Apostle of the Picts c.432 Abbess of Bingen, Visionary 1179 Navaratri (Hindu) Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Vincent de Paul, Spiritual Writer 1626 Founder of the Lazarists 1660 Mahalaya Amavasya (Hindu) 29 30 Michaelmas

Navaratri begins (Hindu) Rosh Hashanah begins (Jewish)

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Earl of Shaftesbury, Giovanni Diodati, Francis of Assisi, Social Reformer 1885 Translator of the Scriptures 1649 Founder of the Friars Minor 1226 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Robert Grosseteste, William Tyndale, Council of Chalceldon begins 451 Bishop of Lincoln, Scientist 1253 Translator of the Scriptures, Navaratri ends / Maha Navami Thomas Traherne, Martyr 1536 (Hindu) Dussehra (Hindu) Yom Kippur (Jewish) Poet, Spiritual Writer 1674 Huldrych Zwingli 1531 First Battle of Passchendaele 1917 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of London , Teresa of Avila, and Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Pierre François le Courayer, King of England 1066 Teacher of the Faith 1582 Worcester, Martyrs 1555 Theologian 1776 Luke the Evangelist 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

Crispin and Crispinian, Alfred the Great, Trafalgar Day United Nations Day Martyrs at Rome c.287 King of the West Saxons, Scholar 899

Michael Servetus, 27 Martyr 1553 28 29 30 31 Diwali (Hindu) James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Anniversary of Luther’s BST Ends – clocks go back Simon and Jude, Apostles Martyr in Uganda 1885 Ninety Five Theses 1517

SMTWT F S SEPTEMBER NOVEMBER SMTWT F S 1234567 12 8910 11 12 13 14 3456789 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 29 30 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Commemorating the centenary of the end of WW1, Downpatrick Photo: David Steers VE RI AS TAS PIET LIBERTAS November

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All Saints’ Day All Souls’ Day 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Willibrord of York, Bishop, Martin de Porres, Lay Brother 1639 Guy Fawkes Day Leonard, Hermit, 6th Century Apostle of Frisia 739 Margery Kempe, Mystic c. 1440 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Remembrance Sunday Destruction of Coventry Cathedral Margaret, Queen of Scotland, The Lübeck Martyrs 1943 Kartik Poornima (Hindu) Charles Simeon, Evangelist 1836 1940 Philanthropist 1093 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln 1200 Mabyn of Cornwall, 5th Century Hilda, Abbess of Whitby 680 Christ the King Cecilia, Martyr at Rome c.230 Thanksgiving (USA) 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

Isaac Watts, Hymn Writer 1748 Great Storm of 1703 Andrew the Apostle

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Charles de Foucauld, St Paul’s Cathedral Clement of Alexandria Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Hermit in the Sahara 1916 Consecrated 1697 Priest and Theologian 215 Nicholas, Bishop of Myra c.326 Teacher of the Faith 397 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

Jerusalem captured Luther burns the papal bull Bodhi Day (Buddhist) by General Allenby 1917 Exsurge Domine 1520 Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse 304 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Saverio Cassar, Gozitan Priest 1805 Eglantyne Jebb, Social Reformer, Sundar Singh, Sadhu, Evangelist Dhanu Sankranti (Hindu) Founder of ‘Save The Children’ 1928 (date of conversion) King Æthelbald of Wessex 860 Thomas, apostle 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Johann Sylvan Executed in Heidelberg 1572 Peter Mogila, Moldavian Metropolitan 1646 Hanukkah Starts (Jewish) Christmas Eve Christmas Day Boxing Day S. John the Gospel-Writer The Holy Innocents 29 30 31 Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr 1170 Hanukkah ends John Wyclif, Reformer 1384

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Winter in Edale: an incautious step by a young Kirton Lindsey Scout caused him to get firmly stuck The Macedonian village of Radožda on Lake Ohrid is the last village before the Albanian border. in the mud as the group made its way up towards Hollins Cross (1300 feet), in the Peak District Above the village in the Jablanica mountains is the church of Saint Michael Archangel, built in a National Park. This was also the route taken by many mill workers on a daily basis, who travelled natural cave during the thirteenth century. It is dedicated to the military commander of the between Castleton and Edale during the nineteenth century. Bodiless Army - the Archangel Michael. February August

Church House is the administrative hub of the Diocese of Armagh, which extends over parts of Bölön Unitarian Church in Transylvania, central Romania, was built on the site of a fifteenth-century counties Londonderry, Tyrone, Armagh and Louth. Located in Abbey Road, it is close to the church dedicated to Saint Catherine which was destroyed by fire in 1720. The current church incorporates part of a seventeenth-century fortress and was rebuilt in 1894. Cathedral Church of St Patrick, built on the site of the church and monastic community founded by St Patrick in 445. September March The image of the dandelion seed head can be interpreted in many ways, explains Graham Bonham who created the focus-stacked composite image. “It could symbolize transience - the Gerbera is a member of the daisy family and was named after Dr Trugott Gerber, an eighteenth temporariness of existence: there one moment and blown away the next. Alternatively, it could century German botanist and friend of Carl Linnaeus. The plant is native to the tropics and is represent fecundity - one bloom produces hundreds of potential new lives - or be about commonly known as the African daisy. A perennial, it is attractive to insects and birds but resistant underappreciated beauty: even pesky ‘weeds’, which many people use ‘chemical weapons’ to deer. The picture was constructed by combining multiple images focused at different points against (to the detriment of the environment), have beautiful aspects.” into a single composite image October April The Methodist chapel was built in 1811 by Wesleyan Methodists in the hamlet of Barber Booth, The common blackbird is a species of true thrush. RS Thomas’ poem ‘A Blackbird Singing’ cites Edale in Derbyshire. The village of Edale grew out of the collection of shepherds' shelters or 'booths' "a suggestion of dark Places about it.” However it is not normally seen as a symbol of bad luck. In in what are now the hamlets of Upper Booth, Barber Booth and Nether Booth. Methodism arrived medieval times the trick of placing live birds under a pie crust just before serving may have been in the area during the late eighteenth century, possibly coinciding with the growing population the origin of the nursery rhyme. A blackbird also featured on the UK 4d stamp in 1966. who sought work in the cotton mill which was built in Edale in 1795 by Nicholas Cresswell. Edale is a haven for walkers and lies at the beginning of the 267 mile Pennine Way footpath. May November Famous Unitarians were celebrated on Dunas Day by the church in Torockó, Transylvania, On Sunday, 18th November 2018 the Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church of Ireland Romania. The location is a world heritage site, known as the ‘land where the sun rises twice’ commemorated the centenary of the end of the First World War with a special service at because of the large ‘Rock of the Szeklers’ which dominates the area. The pictures of famous Downpatrick Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church. At this service the Roll of Honour of all the men Unitarians include Balázs Orbán, Samuel Morse, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Ellery Channing, and women of the denomination who served in the Great War was dedicated. This includes the Horace Greeley, Pákey Lajos, Brassai Sámuel, Berde Áron and Henry Wordsworth Longfellow. names of 588 men and women, 98 of whom gave their lives. Congregation members and friends June decorated the front of the church with memorabilia from the Great War for the service.

St John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta is considered to be one of the finest examples of high Baroque December architecture in Europe. Dedicated to Saint John the Baptist, it was built by the Order of St John Ballydugan Lake is a peaceful and tranquil spot just a short distance outside the bustling town of between 1572 and 1577. The interior was redecorated by Mattia Pretti and features carved stone Downpatrick in county Down. Nearby is the Lakeside Inn which provides the venue for the walls and a painted vaulted ceiling. By selectively positioning the figures on the ceiling next to the Downpatrick church to hold special events such as table quizzes and treasure hunts. The licensee, columns, Pretti gives the illusion that they are statues rather than paintings. The marble floor is Margaret Ferguson, is a church member and was recently awarded the title of Northern Ireland made up of the tombs of over 400 Knights of the Order. Bar Person of the Year for her charitable work. Send a Child to Hucklow Fund (SACH) was started in 1961 by Rev Peter Godfrey and Rev Glyn Pruce, to provide holidays for disadvantaged children at the Nightingale Centre, Great Hucklow in the Peak District “The only condition is that the children National Park. The children are selected from agencies such as selected would not otherwise have a holiday” the Family Service Units, Women's Refuges, Social Service Departments, etc., with no regard to religious considerations.

In 2019 children from across the UK will enjoy a much needed holiday, totally funded and organised by SACH. The charity is run on an entirely voluntary basis and the Hon Secretary is Ernest Baker.

All proceeds from the sale of additional copies of this calendar will go to the fund.

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