ANCIENT MONASTRY AS SHRINE.
Received Sunday, 7 p.ui. LONDON, August 17. The privately owned Fountains Abbey and Hall, near Ripon, Yorkshire, originally a- Oistercian Monastery famous throughout the world, has been sold to a group of leading Roman Catholics, among whom is the Duke of Norfolk. It will be restored as a home for Benedictine Monks and international niernorial for Roman Catholics killed in the two world wars. Oue of its eventual uses will be a shrine at which world conventions of Roman Catholics will be lield. It was built in the twejfth century and was the greatest Cistercian Monastery in England for four centuries until Henry Eighth eonfiscated it.
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Chronicle (Levin), 19 August 1946, Page 8
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