Celebrating Sacred Space' is the title of a national series of study days being organised by the Anglican Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham this  Spring, as part of the 75th anniversary celebrations of the Restoration of the Shrine.

London, Cardiff, Preston and Durham are the chosen venues for the Sacred Space days which are open to all and which have attracted an excellent series of speakers.

The days will explore the concept of 'sacred space' from the perspective and expertise of the invited speakers.

Each day will contain two talks interspersed with lunch.

The series starts at Preston Minster on Thursday March 23rd when Prof. Eamon Duffy and Dr.Sarah Boss will be the speakers. A week later, on Thursday 30th March, the Gate Arts Centre in Cardiff will host the second day at which the Dean of Hereford, the Very Revd Michael Tavinor and the Principal of St.Stephen's House, Oxford, Dr.Jeremy Sheehy will be the speakers.

Ann Morrisy and Dr. Michelle Brown will speak at the Prior's Hall, Durham on Thursday 27th April before the final Study Day takes place in London at the Royal Foundation of St. Katharine on Thursday 4th May. The London speakers include Father Timothy Radcliffe OP and Margaret Barker.

'We are very excited about these days because they will engage people from very different perspectives on a key theme affecting our own times,' said Father Philip North, Administrator of the Shrine, today.

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Notes for Editors
 
Walsingham, known as England's Nazareth, is this year marking the 75th anniversary of the rennovation of Shrine.
 
For further information please contact
Revd Rob Marshall in the Shrine Media Office

robmarshall@aol.com
 
www.walsingham.org.uk