The 2010 Feast of Fursey was celebrated on the 16th January at St Matthew's Church, Thorpe Hamlet, Norwich on
St. Fursey's Day itself. The Fursey Lecture, with the title 'The Front Line: Early Christian Eastern England', was given by our great friend, supporter and encourager - Michelle P. Brown. In last year's Fursey Lecture Rik Hoggett gave us an archaeological overview of early Christianity in Eastern England. Michelle's lecture gave us a parallel lecture on the historical overview and the two lectures complemented each other.

Dr. Michelle P. Brown gave our Inaugural Fursey Lecture 'The Life of St. Fursey' in the year 2000. Michelle is currently Professor of Medieval Manuscript Studies at the Institute of English Studies at the University of London, British Library Project Officer for Scholarship and Collections, and also Advisor to British Library Publications. Previously Michelle was Curator of Medieval and Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library and also the Library's Outreach Officer. Her many publications include 'How Christianity Came to Britain and Ireland'; this was re-issued in Paperback as 'Pagans and Priests: The Coming of Christianity to Britain and Ireland'.

As a result of her visiting us Michelle was also invited to preach the next day in Norwich Cathedral at the 10.30am
Sung Eucharist. Her Address is available to read here.

St. Mathew's Church location

In the evening we returned to the Forget-me-not Cafe for our evening celebration meal. The cafe is part of the Norwich Christian Resources Centre, St. Michael at Plea, Redwell Street Norwich.

Norwich Christian Resources Centre and Forget-me-not Cafe location