Wednesday 17 March 2010

THE BISCUIT AND THE CROSS

Jesuit Spirituality Centre, Rhuallt, Tremeirchion, St. Asaph I’ve had some difficult picture restorations in my time but this faded postcard of St. Beuno’s College took the biscuit. You are looking at the improved version!

St. Beuno’s is a Jesuit Spirituality Centre located between Rhuallt and Tremeirchion near St. Asaph and is a well known place of retreat – and I’m on the verge of needing one.

The card is undated but could be up to 100 years old. Just inside the gates and on the left is a cross on a plinth at the top of a short flight of steps. This is the Tremeirchion Rood of Grace; it stood there from 1862 to 2002 and then was returned to Tremeirchion graveyard whence it came.

The information comes from the St. Beuno web site:
http://www.beunos.com/history.htm

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THU 18th JUN 2015 UPDATE: Just arrived at Jones Towers is this image of St. Beuno’s in snow. It is a card postmarked 1919:

Jesuit Spirituality Centre, Rhuallt, Tremeirchion, St. Asaph

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