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History of Wigan   (Help with ancient and recent history.)

Started by: jo anne (34726) 

A recent feature on St Jude’s Church by Steve Marland in his blog, Modern Mooch:

“In 1962 Tobin wrote to the Archbishop of Liverpool George Andrew Beck with his proposals for a new, permanent church, suggesting that the church should be dedicated either to St Jude or Our Lady of the Assumption.

Beck replied on 15 March:

My dear Father Tobin, Many thanks for your letter. I like your suggestion of St. Jude as a patron of the new church. We already have a parish in honour of The Assumption but none, so far as I know, to St. Jude. I assume that you do not intend to suggest by this title that Wigan is a hopeless case!

The Liverpool architects L A G Prichard & Sons were engaged and work began in the summer of 1963.”

Link: modernmooch.com (Feb 2022)

Replied: 14th Mar 2022 at 10:19

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