Saturday 15 June 2019

In Cambridge

To Jesus College, Cambridge, as the guests of Adrian and Marian, to see the college where among notable old boys is Adrian himself, my late father-in-law, and no less a figure than, Thomas Cranmer, reforming archbishop and author of the Book of Common Prayer.


Cranmer's portrait (right) hangs at the front of the college's dining hall, twinned with a portrait of King Henry VIII, under whom the archbishop served.

In the same hall is the Latin text of Psalm 133.1, How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity, a fitting aspiration for an academic community that bears the name of Jesus, as it meets to dine together.




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