It’s been a busy day so just one piece today in the series on Douai Abbey’s Ward vestments. Today it is the cope. The cope was another significant piece of the set that was ready in 1896, though in that year the morse for […]
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Not all was lost
In the 1890s our priory (Douai became an abbey only in 1900, along with the other ancient EBC houses) in Douai, Flanders, was blessed with a series of generous benefactions from Edmund Granville Ward (1853-1915), of the Isle of Wight, son of the Tractarian […]
