Forthcoming Events

Open Churches Week, SS Peter & Paul, Burgh Castle

Sunday 1st to Sunday 8th August 2010, 10am - 5pm
Norfolk Round Tower Church
Burgh Castle History Display in Words and Pictures.
Prayer/Discovery Trail.
Fursey Pilgrims Display.
Teas in the Village Hall on the Monday, Wednesday and Friday 10am - 5pm.
Special Service Sunday August 8th at 3.30pm a Celebration 'Songs of Praise.'
Free Car Parking available at Church and at Village Hall throughout the week.

Location: Church Rd, Burgh Castle, Norfolk. NR31 9QG
Grid reference: TG 476049
For further details contact:
Maureen Grey Tel: 01493 781747
Email: maureen@maureengrey.wanadoo.co.uk
Website: www.norfarchtrust.org.uk/burgh/index

Pilgrimage to Burgh Castle

Saturday 2nd October 2010. The annual Pilgrimage to Burgh Castle in honour of Fursey, commencing at 2.30pm with a Service in Burgh Castle church. Further details to be announced.

Previous Pilgrimage Preachers

The Feast of Fursey

The 2011 Feast of Fursey - details to be announced.

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

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