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Fr Andrew Southwell, the LMS' National Chaplain, gave one of his regular art tours for homeschoolers. Last year I went on one with my oldest daughter in the National Gallery; this one was at the V&A. There were 25 to 30 parents and children there, it was great fun. We looked at a number of late medieval nativity scenes on altar pieces and some other things, including sone very fine monstrances, paxes and other pieces of metalwork.
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One of the explanatory signs diffidently explained that indulgences were believed to shorten purgatory for a soul.
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Who were these strange people called Catholics, and when did they die out? Actually, our little tour shows that we are not only still alive, but breeding...
A group of us had a very nice lunch afterwards down the road in an Italian restaurant called Rocca di Papa, appropriately enough.
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