CHURCH TEMPORARILY CLOSED
SEQUEL TO CONTROVERSY London, February 23. The Rev. E. Lauria, Vicar of St. Cuthbert’s, Darwen, has been granted three months’ leave of absence following a conference of the parties to the controversy convened by the Bishop of Blackburn) Pending a temporary appointment the church is closed.— A.P.A. and “Sun.” The controversy between the vicar and congregation of St. Cuthbert’s Church, Darwen (Lancs.), has been proceeding since the beginning of the rear. The congregation resented the Anglo-Catholic ritual performed .by the vicar and demonstrated vigorously everv Sunday the ritual was used. The police were called in, and Court proceedings followed. The defendants were bound over to keep the peace, but Irntli sides persisted and the dispute culminated in disgraceful scenes in which a mob of some thousands attacked the vicar on his way home from church and tumbled hini and his bodyguard of police into a shrubbery .at the roadside. Mounted police saw him home.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 126, 25 February 1928, Page 9
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157CHURCH TEMPORARILY CLOSED Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 126, 25 February 1928, Page 9
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