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| Benedict XVI attends a meeting of the elderly at the Vatican in September (AP) |
Benedict XVI has welcomed the progress of the Personal Ordinariate of
Our Lady of Walsingham and has said he is “glad” that its church has
been established on the site of the historic Bavarian embassy chapel in
London.
Our Lady of the Assumption and St Gregory’s in Warwick Street is
situated where the Bavarian embassy chapel, which was pillaged during
the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots in 1780, once stood.
The Pope Emeritus made his comments in a letter to the Friends of the
Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, in reply to Nicolas Ollivant,
chairman of the Friends of the Ordinariate, who had written to the
retired pope to express his gratitude for the gift of the ordinariate.
He had also sent Benedict a brief history of Our Lady of the Assumption
and St Gregory’s.
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