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Jennypeg
Researcher This message was updated on 11/3/2006 3:02:08 PM by Jennypeg |
St Michael vs St Lawrence
replied on: 11/3/2006 2:30:08 PM The Wakes Festival 1890 Ripley & Heanor News The wakes commenced at Heanor on Sunday, when the bells of the church rang at an early hour and a flag floated from the tower. Several services were held during the day, of which the rector (the Rev. C. E. L. Corfield, M.A.) officiated. The open-air services, which are a feature of the festival, were badly attended owing to the heavy rain, but in the evening there was a large congregation at the parish church. The Rector in his sermon referred to the origin of the feast, which he said had probably been kept for nearly a thousand years, there being a church at Heanor at the time of the Doomsday Survey 800 years ago. The feast was kept to celebrate the opening of the first Christian church in Heanor. Mr Corfield also referred to the history of St Lawrence, to whom the church is dedicated. St Lawrence, who lived about 260A.D., was martyred during the persecution of Christians by the Emperor Valerian. Soldiers broke into the church and demanded from St Lawrence the treasures. St Lawrence pointed to the sick and poor who had taken shelter in the sacred edifice, and said, “These are the treasures of the church, the poor whom Christ loves.” Enraged by this reply the soldiers seized and burned him to death on iron bars over a slow fire. |
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