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Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

New Year’s DaySeraphim, Monk of Sarov,

Spiritual Guide 1833Martin Luther excommunicated by

Pope Leo X 1521Ethelred of Wessex defeated by

the Danes at Reading 871 Guru Singh’s birthday (Sikh)

The Epiphany Lucian of Antioch, Martyr 312 John George,

Elector of Brandenburg 1598Byzantine Emperor Zenoflees Constantinople 475

William Laud,Archbishop of Canterbury 1645

Occupation of Ruhr byFrench and Belgian forces 1923

Aelred of Hexham,Abbot of Rievaulx 1167

George Fox,Founder of the Quakers 1691

Mungo (Kentigern) of GlasgowEivind Berggrav , Lutheran,

Norwegian resistance leader 1958Coronation of Queen Elizabeth at Westminster Abbey 1559

Battle of Cape St Vincent, AdmiralRodney defeats Spanish fleet 1780 Antony of Egypt, Hermit 356 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester 1095

Richard Rolle of Hampole,Spiritual Writer 1349

Agnes,Child Martyr at Rome 304

Tu B'Shevat (Arbor Day) (Jewish)Vincent of Saragossa,

Deacon, first Martyr of Spain 304Battle of Rorke’s Drift,Anglo Zulu war 1879

Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva,Teacher of the Faith 1632

Burns Night

Conversion of St PaulTimothy and Titus,

Companions of Paul

Holocaust Memorial DayJohn McCrae, 1stWorld War soldier

and poet 1918Andrei Rublev,

painter of Orthodox icons 1427 King Charles the Martyr 1649Guy Fawkes hung, drawn and

quartered 1606

Church House, Abbey Street, Armagh Photo: Paul Eliasberg

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Brigid, Abbess of Kildare c.525The Presentation of Christ in the

Temple (Candlemas)

Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg 865Septimius Severus, Emperor of

Rome, died Eboracum 211

Chinese New Year - Year of the Pig

Thomas Carlyle, Historian 1881

Joseph Priestley,Theologian and Scientist 1804

George VI, King Emperor 1952Vladimir Lossky,

Orthodox Theologian 1958Cuthmann of Steyning, Anglo Saxon

hermit and church builder c.681 Teilo, Bishop of Llandaff c.560

HMS Dreadnought launched 1906Henry VIII recognised as supreme

head of the Church of England 1531First (secret) demonstration of radar

by Robert Watson-Watt 1935 Massacre at Glencoe 1692 Valentine, Martyr at Rome c 269Thomas Bray, founder of the SPCK

and the SPG 1730Sarcophagus of Tutankhamun

discovered by Howard Carter 1923

SeptuagesimaThe Gestapo capture the White Rose

Munich students 1943Closure of pagan temples byEmperor Constantius II 356

Henry Drummond, banker andfounding member of Catholic

Apostolic church 1860Alexander Gordon,

Minister and Historian 1931British and Indian forces takeRamree Island, Burma 1945

Polycarp,Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr c.155

Broerius Brorius theologian(Pensive Christian) 1799

Aethelbert of Kent, first English Kingto convert to Christianity 597

Injunction orders Galileo to abandonhis belief in heliocentrism 1616

George Herbert,Priest and Poet 1633

Cuauhtémoc,last Aztec Emperor 1525

Gerbera (African Daisy) Photo: Graham Bonham

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David, Bishop of Menevia,Patron of Wales c 601

John Wesleyfounder of Methodism 1791

Chad,Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary 672

Quinquagesima

Hinamatsuri (Japan)

Maha Shivaratri (Hindu)

Thomas Starr King,American Unitarian 1864

Shrove Tuesday

First flight of Supermarine Spitfire1936 Ash Wednesday

Perpetua,Felicity and their companions,

Martyrs at Carthage 203Felix of Burgundy,

first Bishop of the East Angles c.648 The Forty Martyrs of Sebaste 320

Cheesefare (Forgiveness) Sunday(Orthodox)

Commonwealth Day

Matthias Flacius, Istrian theologianand reformer, 1574

Anne Frank,diarist of the Holocaust, 1945

Richard Johnson,first Christian cleric in Australia 1827

Prince John Sigismund,Reformer 1571 Abdication of Czar Nicolas II 1917

Adalbert, Archbishop of Bremen-Hamburg 1072

Patrick,Bishop, Patron of Ireland c.460 Cyril, Bishop of Jerusalem 386

Thomas Ken, non-juring bishop andhymn writer 1711

Spring Equinox

Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, Bishop 687

Purim (Jewish)Holi (Hindu)

Thomas Cranmer, Archbishopof Canterbury, Martyr 1556

Anne Hutchinson, religiousdissident, expelled from

Massachusetts Bay Colony 1638Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès

(Maronite Church)

Oscar Romero,Archbishop of San Salvador,

Martyr 1980 Annunciation of Our Lady: Lady Day

Richard Allen,first African American ordained byMethodist-Episcopal church 1831 George Gilbert Scott, Architect 1878

British forces raid the dry dock of theNormandie at St Nazaire 1942 Charles Wesley 1788

Konrad Mutian,German humanist 1526

Mothering Sunday

BST begins – clocks go back

Juvenile blackbird Photo: Graham Bonham

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April Fools’ Day

Friedrich von Bodelschwingh,theologian, politician and

philanthropist 1910 Richard of Chichester, Bishop 1253Charles II issues

Declaration of Breda 1660

Nicephorus I,Ecumenical Patriarch ofConstantinople 828

David Blondel,French protestant scholar,

clergyman and historian 1655

Bach’s St John Passionpremieres in Leipzig 1724

Dedication ofWinchester Cathedral 1083

Mikael Agricola, theologian andfounder of literary Finnish 1557

William of Ockham,Friar, Philosopher 1347

George Augustus Selwyn,first Bishop of New Zealand 1878

Seneca the Younger,Roman philosopher,

statesman and dramatist 65 Ramanavami (Hindu)

Palm Sunday Sinking of Titanic 1912 Maundy Thursday

Good Friday

Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury,Martyr 1012 First Day of Passover (Jewish)

Easter Day Birth of James Martineau 1805Birthday of HM Queen Elizabeth Bank Holiday George, Patron of England Mellitus, first Bishop at St Paul’s 624

Mark the Evangelist

Anzac DayBasque town of Guernica

destroyed by Luftwaffe 1937

Christina Rossetti, Poet 1894

Final Day of Passover

Low SundayCatherine of Siena,

Teacher of the Faith 1380

Moorish troops land at Gibraltarto begin their invasion

of the Iberian Peninsula 711

A celebration of famous Unitarians on Dunas Day, Torockó, Romania Photo: Sára Bíró

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David Livingstone,Explorer, Missionary 1873

Joan Bocher,Anabaptist, Martyr 1550

Charlie Soong, Chinese Methodistmissionary involved in theXinhai Revolution of 1911

John Wycliffe and Jan Husdeclared as heretics at theCouncil of Constance 1415

John Flynn of the Inland, Presbyter,Australian Outback pioneer 1951

Bank Holiday UK

Ramadan starts (Islamic) Sinking of RMS Lusitania 1915Birth of Henry Dunant,

Founder of the Red Cross 1828 Yom HaAtzma'ut (Jewish) William Alexander Smith,

Founder of the Boys’ Brigade 1914

John Herschel,cataloguer of southern hemisphere

constellations 1871

John Masefield, poet 1967

Exhumed corpse ofAnabaptist theologian David Jorisz

burned for heresy, Basel 1559

Edward Jenner administers the firstinoculation against smallpox,

Berkeley, Gloucs. 1796Dmitry of Uglich 1591

(Eastern Orthodox)Caroline Chisholm,

Social Reformer 1877Relief of Mafeking, Cape Colony

(2nd Anglo-Boer War) 1900 Vesak - Buddha Day

Anne Boleyn beheaded inthe Tower of London 1536

Joseph Blanco White,Theologian 1841

Elizabeth Poole,Puritan pioneer in Plymouth colony

Massachusetts, 1664William Temple Gairdner,

Missionary 1928 Lag BaOmer (Jewish)John and Charles Wesley,

1791 and 1788Edict of Worms outlaws

Martin Luther and his followers 1521

Augustine of Canterbury 604

Rogation Sunday Bank HolidayAlan Turing submits ‘On Computable

Numbers’ for publication 1936 Percy Dearmer, Priest, Liturgist 1936 Ascension DayFeast of the Visitation of

Mary and Elizabeth

St John’s Co-Cathedral, Valletta, Malta Photo: Anne Wild

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Justin, Martyr at Rome c.165

Helen Keller, Philanthropist 1968

Coronation Day Savitri Pooja (Hindu) Eid-al-Fitr (End of Ramadan - Islamic) Boniface, Archbishop 754Ini Kopuria,

Evangelist in Melanesia 1945 Battle of Messines begins 1917Gerard Manly Hopkins,

Priest, Poet 1889

Pentecost (Whit Sunday)

Columba, Abbot of Iona 597 Frederick Delius, Composer 1934 Barnabas the ApostleEnmegahbowh,

Priest, American Episcopal 1902German air raid on London byGotha bombers kills 162 1917 Richard Baxter, Puritan Divine 1691

Wat Tyler, leader of Peasants' Revolt,beheaded 1381

Fathers’ Day

William Branwhite Clarke,Priest, Geologist 1878

Corpus Christi

John Colenso, Bishop of Natal 1883 Alban, first Martyr of Britain c. 250

Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely c.678 The Birth of John the BaptistGeorge MacLeod,

Founder of Iona Community 1991Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons,Teacher of the Faith c.200 Peter and Paul, Apostles

Adolf of Osnabrück 1222

Lake Ohrid viewed from the church of the Archangel Michael, Radožda, Macedonia Photo: Tony Lemon

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Battle of Somme begins 1916 Battle of Marston Moor 1644 Thomas the Apostle

Independence Day (USA)

Charles Venn Pilcher,Bishop, Hymn-writer 1961

Thomas More, Scholar,and John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester,

Martyrs 1535

Thomas Hooker, Minister,Founder of Connecticut 1647 Auspicius of Trier c.130

Stephen Langton,Archbishop of Canterbury 1228

Benedict of Nursia,Abbot of Monte Cassino c.550

Battle of the Boyne(Bank Holiday Northern Ireland) Obon (Buddhist)

John Keble, Tractarian 1866 Swithun, Bishop of Winchester c.862

Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury 1099

Asala - Dharma Day (Buddhist) Scillitan Martyrs, Carthage 180Arthur Penrhyn Stanley,

Dean of Westminster, Writer 1881Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa,Teacher of the Faith c.394

Margaret of Antioch,Martyr, 4th century

Petrus Lombardus,Theologian and Bishop 1160 Mary Magdalene Christina the Astonishing 1224 James the Apostle Joachim, Father of Mary

Brooke Foss Westcott,Bishop of Durham, Teacher 1901

Antonio Vivaldi 1741

Johann Sebastian Bach 1750Thomas Dick,

Astronomer, Minister 1857William Wilberforce,Social Reformer 1833

Battle of Passchendaele(Third Ypres) begins 1917

Unitarian service at Bölön, Transylvania, Romania Photo: Sára Bíró

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Lammas Day

Joseph of Arimathea Basil the Blessed (Russian Orthodox)Simon Knéfacz,

Croatian monk, Author 1819

Oswald, King of Northumbria,Martyr 642 The Transfiguration of Our Lord Rabindranath Tagore, Poet 1941

Mary Sumner,Founder of the Mothers’ Union 1921

Laurence,Deacon at Rome, Martyr 258

Waqf al Arafa - Hajj (Islamic)

John Henry Newman,Priest, Tractarian 1890 Octavia Hill, Social Reformer 1912 Maximilian Kolbe, Friar, Martyr 1941 The Blessed Virgin Mary

Roger Schutz,founder ofthe Taize Community 2005

Trial of the Pendle Witches 1612

William and Catherine Booth,Founders of the Salvation Army

1912 and 1890

Increase Mather,Boston Congregational Minister,

Author 1723 Bartholomew the Apostle

James Watt, Engineer 1819

Bank Holiday

Hundred Years’ War:Battle of Crécy 1346

Augustine, Bishop of Hippo,Teacher of the Faith 430 John Bunyan 1688

Aidan,Bishop of Lindisfarne,

Missionary 651

Dandelion seed head Photo: Graham Bonham

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Giles of Provence, Hermit c.710 Ganesh Chaturthi (Hindu)

Gregory the Great,Bishop of Rome,

Teacher of the Faith 604 Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne 687 Elizabeth, Mother of John the BaptistThe Pilgrims sail from Plymouth on

the Mayflower1620Suleiman the Magnificent,

Ottoman Sultan 1566

First V2 rocket hits London 1944Charles Lowder, Founder of theSociety of the Holy Cross 1880

Thomas Wolseyinvested as a Cardinal 1515

Melisende,Queen of Jerusalem 1161

John Chrysostom,Bishop of Constantinople 407 Holy Cross Day

Cyprian,Bishop of Carthage, Martyr 258

Ninian,Bishop of Galloway,

Apostle of the Picts c.432Hildegard,

Abbess of Bingen, Visionary 1179 Navaratri (Hindu) Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist

Lancelot Andrewes,Bishop of Winchester,Spiritual Writer 1626

Vincent de Paul,Founder of the Lazarists 1660 Mahalaya Amavasya (Hindu)

Michaelmas

Navaratri begins (Hindu) Rosh Hashanah begins (Jewish)

Methodist chapel, Barber Booth, Edale, Derbyshire Photo: Andrew Clarke

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Earl of Shaftesbury,Social Reformer 1885

Giovanni Diodati,Translator of the Scriptures 1649

Francis of Assisi,Founder of the Friars Minor 1226

William Tyndale,Translator of the Scriptures,

Martyr 1536Navaratri ends / Maha Navami

(Hindu)

Council of Chalceldon begins 451

Dussehra (Hindu)

Robert Grosseteste,Bishop of Lincoln, Scientist 1253

Yom Kippur (Jewish)Thomas Traherne,

Poet, Spiritual Writer 1674 Huldrych Zwingli 1531 First Battle of Passchendaele 1917

Edward the Confessor,King of England 1066

Teresa of Avila,Teacher of the Faith 1582

Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of Londonand Hugh Latimer, Bishop of

Worcester, Martyrs 1555 Pierre François le Courayer,

Theologian 1776 Luke the Evangelist

Trafalgar Day United Nations DayCrispin and Crispinian,Martyrs at Rome c.287

Alfred the Great,King of the West Saxons, Scholar 899

Michael Servetus,Martyr 1553

Diwali (Hindu)BST Ends – clocks go back Simon and Jude, Apostles

James Hannington,Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa,

Martyr in Uganda 1885Anniversary of Luther’sNinety Five Theses 1517

Commemorating the centenary of the end of WW1, Downpatrick Photo: David Steers

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All Saints’ Day All Souls’ Day

Martin de Porres, Lay Brother 1639 Guy Fawkes Day Leonard, Hermit, 6th CenturyWillibrord of York, Bishop,

Apostle of Frisia 739 Margery Kempe, Mystic c. 1440

Remembrance Sunday

The Lübeck Martyrs 1943 Kartik Poornima (Hindu) Charles Simeon, Evangelist 1836Destruction of Coventry Cathedral

1940 Margaret, Queen of Scotland,

Philanthropist 1093

Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln 1200 Mabyn of Cornwall, 5th Century Hilda, Abbess of Whitby 680 Christ the King Cecilia, Martyr at Rome c.230 Thanksgiving (USA)

Isaac Watts,Hymn Writer 1748 Great Storm of 1703 Andrew the Apostle

Cygnets on Ballydugan Lake, county Down Photo: David Steers

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NOVEMBER JANUARY2020

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1st Sunday of Advent

Charles de Foucauld,Hermit in the Sahara 1916

St Paul’s CathedralConsecrated 1697

Clement of AlexandriaPriest and Theologian 215 Nicholas, Bishop of Myra c.326

Ambrose, Bishop of Milan,Teacher of the Faith 397

Bodhi Day (Buddhist) Jerusalem captured

by General Allenby 1917Luther burns the papal bull

Exsurge Domine1520 Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse 304

Saverio Cassar, Gozitan Priest 1805

Dhanu Sankranti (Hindu)Eglantyne Jebb, Social Reformer,

Founder of ‘Save The Children’ 1928Sundar Singh, Sadhu, Evangelist

(date of conversion) King Æthelbald of Wessex 860 Thomas, apostle

Peter Mogila,Moldavian Metropolitan 1646

Johann SylvanExecuted in Heidelberg 1572

Hanukkah Starts (Jewish) Christmas Eve Christmas Day Boxing Day S. John the Gospel-Writer The Holy Innocents

Thomas Becket,Archbishop of Canterbury,

Martyr 1170 Hanukkah ends John Wyclif, Reformer 1384

JanuaryWinter in Edale: an incautious step by a young Kirton Lindsey Scout caused him to get firmly stuck

in the mud as the group made its way up towards Hollins Cross (1300 feet), in the Peak District

National Park. This was also the route taken by many mill workers on a daily basis, who travelled

between Castleton and Edale during the nineteenth century.

FebruaryChurch House is the administrative hub of the Diocese of Armagh, which extends over parts of

counties Londonderry, Tyrone, Armagh and Louth. Located in Abbey Road, it is close to the

Cathedral Church of St Patrick, built on the site of the church and monastic community founded

by St Patrick in 445.

MarchGerbera is a member of the daisy family and was named after Dr Trugott Gerber, an eighteenth

century German botanist and friend of Carl Linnaeus. The plant is native to the tropics and is

commonly known as the African daisy. A perennial, it is attractive to insects and birds but resistant

to deer. The picture was constructed by combining multiple images focused at different points

into a single composite image

AprilThe common blackbird is a species of true thrush. RS Thomas’ poem ‘A Blackbird Singing’ cites

"a suggestion of dark Places about it.” However it is not normally seen as a symbol of bad luck. In

medieval times the trick of placing live birds under a pie crust just before serving may have been

the origin of the nursery rhyme. A blackbird also featured on the UK 4d stamp in 1966.

MayFamous Unitarians were celebrated on Dunas Day by the church in Torockó, Transylvania,

Romania. The location is a world heritage site, known as the ‘land where the sun rises twice’

because of the large ‘Rock of the Szeklers’ which dominates the area. The pictures of famous

Unitarians include Balázs Orbán, Samuel Morse, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Ellery Channing,

Horace Greeley, Pákey Lajos, Brassai Sámuel, Berde Áron and Henry Wordsworth Longfellow.

JuneSt John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta is considered to be one of the finest examples of high Baroque

architecture in Europe. Dedicated to Saint John the Baptist, it was built by the Order of St John

between 1572 and 1577. The interior was redecorated by Mattia Pretti and features carved stone

walls and a painted vaulted ceiling. By selectively positioning the figures on the ceiling next to the

columns, Pretti gives the illusion that they are statues rather than paintings. The marble floor is

made up of the tombs of over 400 Knights of the Order.

JulyThe Macedonian village of Radožda on Lake Ohrid is the last village before the Albanian border.

Above the village in the Jablanica mountains is the church of Saint Michael Archangel, built in a

natural cave during the thirteenth century. It is dedicated to the military commander of the

Bodiless Army - the Archangel Michael.

AugustBölön Unitarian Church in Transylvania, central Romania, was built on the site of a fifteenth-century

church dedicated to Saint Catherine which was destroyed by fire in 1720. The current church

incorporates part of a seventeenth-century fortress and was rebuilt in 1894.

SeptemberThe image of the dandelion seed head can be interpreted in many ways, explains Graham

Bonham who created the focus-stacked composite image. “It could symbolize transience - the

temporariness of existence: there one moment and blown away the next. Alternatively, it could

represent fecundity - one bloom produces hundreds of potential new lives - or be about

underappreciated beauty: even pesky ‘weeds’, which many people use ‘chemical weapons’

against (to the detriment of the environment), have beautiful aspects.”

OctoberThe Methodist chapel was built in 1811 by Wesleyan Methodists in the hamlet of Barber Booth,

Edale in Derbyshire. The village of Edale grew out of the collection of shepherds' shelters or 'booths'

in what are now the hamlets of Upper Booth, Barber Booth and Nether Booth. Methodism arrived

in the area during the late eighteenth century, possibly coinciding with the growing population

who sought work in the cotton mill which was built in Edale in 1795 by Nicholas Cresswell. Edale

is a haven for walkers and lies at the beginning of the 267 mile Pennine Way footpath.

NovemberOn Sunday, 18th November 2018 the Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church of Ireland

commemorated the centenary of the end of the First World War with a special service at

Downpatrick Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church. At this service the Roll of Honour of all the men

and women of the denomination who served in the Great War was dedicated. This includes the

names of 588 men and women, 98 of whom gave their lives. Congregation members and friends

decorated the front of the church with memorabilia from the Great War for the service.

DecemberBallydugan Lake is a peaceful and tranquil spot just a short distance outside the bustling town of

Downpatrick in county Down. Nearby is the Lakeside Inn which provides the venue for the

Downpatrick church to hold special events such as table quizzes and treasure hunts. The licensee,

Margaret Ferguson, is a church member and was recently awarded the title of Northern Ireland

Bar Person of the Year for her charitable work.

Send a Child to Hucklow Fund (SACH) wasstarted in 1961 by Rev Peter Godfrey and RevGlyn Pruce, to provide holidays fordisadvantaged children at the NightingaleCentre, Great Hucklow in the Peak DistrictNational Park.

The children are selected from agencies such asthe Family Service Units, Women's Refuges,Social Service Departments, etc., with no regardto religious considerations.

In 2019 children from across the UK will enjoy amuch needed holiday, totally funded andorganised by SACH. The charity is run on anentirely voluntary basis and the Hon Secretary isErnest Baker.

All proceeds from the sale of additional copiesof this calendar will go to the fund.

Registered charity number: 271585

Donations Treasurer:Mrs R. Taylor, 10 Heald Grove, Heald Green,CHEADLE, Cheshire SK8 3RX

“The only condition is that the childrenselected would not otherwise have a holiday”

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THANKS TO:Andrew Clarke, Graham Bonham, Anne Wild, Sára Bíró, Tony Lemon, David Steers, Roger Mason, JúliaAndorkó and Paul Eliasberg for their photographs.

PHOTO CREDITS COVER:top l-r: Roger Mason - Dalai Lama's garden Norbulinka Palace Lhasa | Anne Wild - Southwell Minster, Nottinghamshire, Chapter House Cloister. Window by Patrick

Reyntiens | presented by Júlia Andorkó - Re-enactment of Aladár Körösfoi-Kriesch's painting (1896) of the Diet of Torda, performed in Sepsiszentgyörgy.bottom l-r: Graham Bonham - Canada goose | Júlia Andorkó - Inauguration of the monument commemorating the 450th anniversary of the Hungarian Unitarian Church,

Firtosi Meeting 2018 | Anne Wild - Church of the Grand Palace, Peterhof, St Petersburg.

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A Lincolnshire cat,All Saints’ Church, Branston

photo: Nigel Clarke

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