BUCKFAST ABBEY
CONSTRUCTED BY MONKS
CONSECRATION CEREMONIES
(British Official Wireless.)
, . RUGBY, Aug. 26. The new Buckfast Abbey, in the County of Devonshire, which has be built of Bath stone by a handful of the Benedictine Monks during the past twenty-five years with their own hands, and without any money, on the site of the ruins of the former Benedictine Abbey there, was conseciated to-day.
The ceremony of consecration was conducted by His Elminence Cardinal Bourne, Primate of England, as the Papal Legate. During blessing more than twenty bishops and thirty abbotts marched round the Church in procession, 1 and a congregation of 5000 people atteended the first public service held later. The altar piece in the Abbey Chapel is in gold and silver, with rich enamelling and precious stones. The altar was presented to the Abbey by the goldsmiths of Aix La Chapelte in Germany.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 August 1932, Page 5
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