Merrily on high - Couverture rigide

Stephenson, Colin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0819211524 ISBN 13 : 9780819211521

Editeur : Morehouse-Barlow, 1973

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Widely regarded as one of the most amusing ecclesiastical memoirs of the 20th century, Colin Stephenson's autobiography is an Anglo-Catholic classic, embodying a great love for people and a relish for their eccentricities and foibles. The heady peaks of Tractarian glories between the wars decidedly shaped Colin Stephenson's preferences. Young and impressionable, he revelled in the rich ceremonial of continental Catholicism in all its triumphal self-assurance. As an inexperienced naval chaplain in the Second World War, he set about installing baroque altars on warships, despite the 'violent firmness' with which certain admirals and captains reacted.Such encounters delighted him and many episodes are stories told against himself. After the war, and despite serious injury, he returned to Oxford and created the 'highest church in the city', before succeeding Alfred Hope Patten as Guardian of the Shrine of Our Lady at Walsingham, where he found plenty to satisfy his appetite for the oddities of high Anglicanism. 'It may be a trivial record', he writes,' but I hope it is illuminated by love and I think I have made myself as ridiculous as anyone.'

Biographie de l'auteur

COLIN STEPHENSON was Guardian of Walsingham from 1958 until his death in 1973. Merrily on High was first published in 1972.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Morehouse-Barlow
• Date d'édition: 1973
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0819211524
• ISBN 13: 9780819211521
• Reliure: Relié
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• Personne responsable: non disponible