James Ambrose Cotham, by Joanna Vials Bead Colour_Sterling Silver Shrine enthusiast Michael Tavinor explores

Shrine enthusiast Michael Tavinor explores the history and the present day significance of the shrines to the saints that can be found in many cathedrals and abbeys

Gold Plated Reliquary

Ireland and the Commonwealth

Tess Ward is an Anglican hospital chaplain in Oxford

James Ambrose Cotham, by Joanna Vials Bead Colour_Sterling Silver Shrine enthusiast Michael Tavinor exploresThe Indomitable Mr Cotham: Missioner, Convict Chaplain, and Monk. James Ambrose Cotham OSB (1810 1883), a Douai monk of the English Benedictine Congregation, was active in the early colonial period in Tasmania as a convict chaplain, and after 1851 as a missioner in England with many and varied relationships with family, co workers, and religious communities. From extensive use of his surviving papers, Joanna Vials has researched his mission, colonial