31 Days of Graves Day 15 Saint

I’ve spent quite a lot of time over the past few weeks having a really good look around our local cemeteries, on the hunt for graves that fit a specific theme. Now, you’d think, wouldn’t you, that there might be mentions of saints, or perhaps statues representing saints? I found angels, I found women, and I found things that could well have been saints, but I was unable to work out which particular saint was represented.

I was struggling a bit with this theme, until I decided to branch out from our Anglican cemeteries, and headed off down Ashby Road to St Mary’s Catholic church. I wasn’t feeling particularly hopeful, as having spent a good deal of time walking up and down Ashby Road [1], I’d never spotted a graveyard at the church. However, I was not disappointed with my visit!

No, there wasn’t a graveyard, but, along the perimeter of the church facing Hastings Street stood three memorial stones. 

The stone to the right commemorated Thomas and Francis Reaney, while the one on the right was the one that really caught my attention.

The inscription reads:

Of your Charity

Pray forth Repose of the Soul of

Francis Heap,

who departed this life,

on the feast of Saint Mary Magdalen,

July 22nd 1852:

being the 26th Year of his Age

We have loved him let us not forsake him until by

our prayers we have introduced him into Eternal

tabernacles. 

Requiescant in pace.

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Notes

[1] One of my earliest posts to this blog was about Ashby Road, and I've revisited the street and written about its houses (odd numbered, and even numbered), and its shops. 

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