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My confirmation was definitely by the Bishop of Chichester.

Extract from The Blue for July 1978 page 74.
"Confirmation was conducted by the new Bishop of Lewes, Bishop Peter, who also gave the Lenten Address: his visit was a most moving spiritual moment in the life of the Hospital".

J.R. wrote:My confirmation was definitely by the Bishop of Chichester.

Mine too.

Bishop of Lewes in 1966.

Seems I left just in time, then !!

Bishop of Lewes in 1966: James Herbert Lloyd Morrell!

Since this thread seems to have drifted to confirmation: did anyone else have a Franciscan? brother (monk, friar) act as teacher and confessor?

Brother Angelo, I remember him well. He has come up in a previous thread. I think John Robson must have invited him.

LongGone wrote:Since this thread seems to have drifted to confirmation: did anyone else have a Franciscan? brother (monk, friar) act as teacher and confessor?

Brother Patrick SSF. ex floor salesman at the big haberdashers cum general store where North Street meets the Old Steyne in Brighton. Afflicted by a back injury and surgery gone wrong right through to his death. But that was outside CH influence

Rev Pullen (The Chain), was my tutor.

I do remember a monk visiting regularly around 1962. He used to smoke cigarettes right down to the very end, using a sort of wire clip as a holder.

J.R. wrote:Rev Pullen (The Chain), was my tutor.

I do remember a monk visiting regularly around 1962. He used to smoke cigarettes right down to the very end, using a sort of wire clip as a holder.

He must have been in Spain some time.
In Madrid, a colleague would put a wooden toothpick in the end off his cigar so that he could keep it between his lips longer. He seemed to hold it between his front teeth so that he could continually work and smoke.
Not being a smoker, I had not seen this before.

right down to the very end, using a sort of wire clip as a holder.

Roach clip

The 'monk' in question was presumably the friar Father Reginald OSF, from the Franciscan house in Cambridge, who gave the Lenten sermons on Wednesday evenings after tea.

michael scuffil wrote:The 'monk' in question was presumably the friar Father Reginald OSF, from the Franciscan house in Cambridge, who gave the Lenten sermons on Wednesday evenings after tea.

Interesting that CH, despite being fairly Protestant, should invite a Roman Catholic monk to give the sermons (the Order of Saint Francis is the catholic parallel to the Society of Saint Francis).

Sorry, my error. He was an Anglican. Should have written SSF. The Catholics would be OFM (Ordo Fratrum Minorum).