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A Sacrifice of Praise
Right in the heart of London, not a stone’s throw from Marble Arch is Tyburn. From 1196 to 1783 it was the
site of the King’s Gallows, a place of shame to which many a common criminal made a one-way journey. In the
reign of Queen Elizabeth I, the ‘Tree of Tyburn’, the Deadly Never-Green Tyburn Tree was erected; a triple
gallows which would serve to transform this place of shame into a place of glory as a steady procession of
Catholic Martyrs pilgrimed heavenward by this route.
A Sacrifice of Praise is the remarkable story of a remarkable woman, Mother Marie Adèle Garnier, and of
how, through her efforts, Tyburn is today the home of Tyburn Convent - the Mother House of a world-wide
congregation of cloistered Benedictine nuns, and famous shrine of the English Reformation Martyrs.
ISBN 0 907077 45 5
160 pp. + 8 pp. picture section, sewn softcover
£11.95
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