From Catholic Herald:
The convent’s very existence fulfils the prophecy made in 1585 by Fr Gregory Gunne when, during his own trial, he rebuked an Elizabethan court for having sentenced St Edmund Campion to death at Tyburn. “You have slain the greatest man in England,” he said. “I will add that one day there, where you have put him to death, a religious house will arise, thanks to an important offering.”
We can't discover the outcome of Gunne's trial - was he also put to death at Tyburn?
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Gregory Gunne
{On a slate-grey plaque with gold lettering:} In 1585 Gregory Gunne predicte...
Founded in the eleventh century in memory of St Olaf. The original building, shown in this 1647 drawing by Wenceslaus Hollar, survived until 1734 and was then rebuilt to the designs of Henry Flitcr...
Its full name is the Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Saviour and St Mary Overie. Any claim that there was a convent here before 1106 are apparently unproven. 1106 - 1538 it was the church of...
In 604 the Bishop Mellitus arrived from Italy as the first Bishop of London and built and dedicated a cathedral to St Paul on the site where St Paul’s stands today. Became Archbishop of Canterbury...
In 1714 John Michele gave the ground to St John’s Church in St John’s Square for use as a graveyard. About 100 years later Rev. William Dawson arranged that the church donate the graveyard as a pub...
Wilfred Denniston Wood was Bishop of Croydon 1985 -2003, the first black bishop in the Church of England. He came second in the "100 Great Black Britons" list in 2004. Born in Barbados, ordained th...
Formerly part of Kent, it has been part of Greater London since 1963.
Founded in the 1880s by Angela Burdett-Coutts.
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