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Graham Mitchell/Canon Sean Gilligan St. Anne’s 175th Anniversary
St. Anne’s 175th Anniversary
1835 to 2010.
St Anne’s Catholic Church, North Street, Keighley is currently celebrating the 175th anniversary of the establishment in 1835 of the first permanent Catholic Mission and resident priest in the town since the English Reformation in Tudor times.
On Sunday 11th July over 50 representatives from St Anne’s and other Catholic Parishes in Keighley re-enacted the 8 mile walk from Keighley over Ilkley Moor to Middleton Lodge above Ilkley to mark the sufferings of their ancestors. They were joined at Ilkley Park by some 70 other Parishioners and Canon Sean Gilligan, Fr Jack Kennedy and Fr Patrick Mungovin to form a procession of The Blessed Sacrament for the final uphill mile to Middleton Lodge where Mass was concelebrated at the Calvary in the woodland grotto above the Lodge.
The historical significance which was being marked is that following the twin Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity, passed by Parliament in 1559, the service of the Mass and Catholic worship was effectively suppressed in England for the next 232 years, until the Second Catholic Relief Act of 1791.
The pitifully few Catholics remaining in Keighley – only four were recorded as living in the Town in the 1767 ‘Returns of Papists’ – could only attend worship in their chosen faith by walking 8 miles over Ilkley Moor to hear Mass celebrated secretly by Benedictine Monks at Middleton Lodge. As restrictions upon Catholics eased towards the end of the 18th century, the regular walk over the Moors became more recognised and established, so that sometimes a Monk would meet the Pilgrims on the Moors and an open air Mass would be said.
This Pilgrim Walk was re-enacted on Sunday 11th July in memory of the difficulties faced by Catholics prior to the establishment of a new Catholic Mission in Keighley in 1835.
A spokeman said, “We were delighted that representatives from all the Catholic Parishes in Keighley joined in the Pilgrimage as prior to 1835, there was of course no St. Anne’s Parish, only a handful of ‘Catholics in Keighley’ so we were celebrating our common faith and our common hardships of 200 and more years ago."
Further details of the Pilgrimage Walk from Michael Baglio (07801-945249)
On Sunday 18th July Canon Sean Gilligan will celebrate a special “Anniversary High Mass” at St. Anne’s Church at 10.00 am to mark the founding of the Catholic Mission by the Benedictine Monk Fr Jerome Hampson in Keighley in 1835. A new history called “Catholics in Keighley” is also to be launched after the Mass to mark 175 years of “Faith in the Community”. This new book has been 18 months in the production and includes chapters by Canon Sean Gilligan, journalist Paul Routledge, former Deputy Headmaster Mr Sean Gilligan and other prominent members of St Anne’s Parish.
“Catholics in Keighley” tells of the sufferings of Catholics through over 2 centuries of the “Penal Times”, of how the Mission came to be established in Keighley and how the two principal supportive families, the Tempests of Broughton Hall and the Middletons of Ilkley, came to finance the building of St Anne’s Church itself. Details are given of the difficulties of the actual construction of the Pugin-designed Church and its eventual opening in 1840. The book then follows the 19th century fortunes of the immigrant Irish and their support by Fr Joseph Russell when they were heavily criticised by the Town Mayor in the pages of the “Keighley News”! A chapter tells of the coming of the Ukrainian Community and the importance of St Anne’s in their development. Details are also given of Catholics prominent in public life in recent times and there are extensive word pictures from current pupils of both St Anne’s Primary School and The Holy Family Secondary School. Sporting and Social life centred on the Church is covered as are the roles of The Sisters of The Cross & Passion and the clergy from 1835 to the present day.
Canon Sean Gilligan, in his overview of the Parish, speaks of St Anne’s “continually adapting to changing needs and circumstances, welcoming in turn to Keighley a whole series of migrants; Irish, Poles, Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Slovenians, Austrians, Italians, Maltese and most recently, newcomers from Kerala, the Philippines and China.”
“Catholics in Keighley” is to be launched on Sunday 18th July
and will be available from St Anne’s priced at £6.99.
The 175th Anniversary Mass is at 10.00 am on Sunday 18th July and is open to all.
Further details of St Anne’s from Canon Sean Gilligan (01535 – 645454)
And of “Catholics in Keighley” from Graham Mitchell (07961 – 174295)
Graham Mitchell/Canon Sean Gilligan St. Anne’s 175th Anniversary
St. Anne’s 175th Anniversary
1835 to 2010.
St Anne’s Catholic Church, North Street, Keighley is currently celebrating the 175th anniversary of the establishment in 1835 of the first permanent Catholic Mission and resident priest in the town since the English Reformation in Tudor times.
On Sunday 11th July over 50 representatives from St Anne’s and other Catholic Parishes in Keighley re-enacted the 8 mile walk from Keighley over Ilkley Moor to Middleton Lodge above Ilkley to mark the sufferings of their ancestors. They were joined at Ilkley Park by some 70 other Parishioners and Canon Sean Gilligan, Fr Jack Kennedy and Fr Patrick Mungovin to form a procession of The Blessed Sacrament for the final uphill mile to Middleton Lodge where Mass was concelebrated at the Calvary in the woodland grotto above the Lodge.
The historical significance which was being marked is that following the twin Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity, passed by Parliament in 1559, the service of the Mass and Catholic worship was effectively suppressed in England for the next 232 years, until the Second Catholic Relief Act of 1791.
The pitifully few Catholics remaining in Keighley – only four were recorded as living in the Town in the 1767 ‘Returns of Papists’ – could only attend worship in their chosen faith by walking 8 miles over Ilkley Moor to hear Mass celebrated secretly by Benedictine Monks at Middleton Lodge. As restrictions upon Catholics eased towards the end of the 18th century, the regular walk over the Moors became more recognised and established, so that sometimes a Monk would meet the Pilgrims on the Moors and an open air Mass would be said.
This Pilgrim Walk was re-enacted on Sunday 11th July in memory of the difficulties faced by Catholics prior to the establishment of a new Catholic Mission in Keighley in 1835.
A spokeman said, “We were delighted that representatives from all the Catholic Parishes in Keighley joined in the Pilgrimage as prior to 1835, there was of course no St. Anne’s Parish, only a handful of ‘Catholics in Keighley’ so we were celebrating our common faith and our common hardships of 200 and more years ago."
Further details of the Pilgrimage Walk from Michael Baglio (07801-945249)
On Sunday 18th July Canon Sean Gilligan will celebrate a special “Anniversary High Mass” at St. Anne’s Church at 10.00 am to mark the founding of the Catholic Mission by the Benedictine Monk Fr Jerome Hampson in Keighley in 1835. A new history called “Catholics in Keighley” is also to be launched after the Mass to mark 175 years of “Faith in the Community”. This new book has been 18 months in the production and includes chapters by Canon Sean Gilligan, journalist Paul Routledge, former Deputy Headmaster Mr Sean Gilligan and other prominent members of St Anne’s Parish.
“Catholics in Keighley” tells of the sufferings of Catholics through over 2 centuries of the “Penal Times”, of how the Mission came to be established in Keighley and how the two principal supportive families, the Tempests of Broughton Hall and the Middletons of Ilkley, came to finance the building of St Anne’s Church itself. Details are given of the difficulties of the actual construction of the Pugin-designed Church and its eventual opening in 1840. The book then follows the 19th century fortunes of the immigrant Irish and their support by Fr Joseph Russell when they were heavily criticised by the Town Mayor in the pages of the “Keighley News”! A chapter tells of the coming of the Ukrainian Community and the importance of St Anne’s in their development. Details are also given of Catholics prominent in public life in recent times and there are extensive word pictures from current pupils of both St Anne’s Primary School and The Holy Family Secondary School. Sporting and Social life centred on the Church is covered as are the roles of The Sisters of The Cross & Passion and the clergy from 1835 to the present day.
Canon Sean Gilligan, in his overview of the Parish, speaks of St Anne’s “continually adapting to changing needs and circumstances, welcoming in turn to Keighley a whole series of migrants; Irish, Poles, Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Slovenians, Austrians, Italians, Maltese and most recently, newcomers from Kerala, the Philippines and China.”
“Catholics in Keighley” is to be launched on Sunday 18th July
and will be available from St Anne’s priced at £6.99.
The 175th Anniversary Mass is at 10.00 am on Sunday 18th July and is open to all.
Further details of St Anne’s from Canon Sean Gilligan (01535 – 645454)
And of “Catholics in Keighley” from Graham Mitchell (07961 – 174295)