Occurring
for 1 hour
Venue Address
Church of the Sagrado Corazón de Maria, Estacion de Salinas, Archidona, Málaga Province, 29315, Spain
All Saints’ Day, is the day we remember all the saints and martyrs of the church, both known and unknown.

When I was a child, we worshipped each Sunday at St Albans Abbey, the church of the first British martyr. At the front of the nave above the altar was a stone rood screen, built by Abbot Thomas de la Mare, around the time of the Black Death (1349-51). It contained seven empty niches, where brightly coloured statues had once stood. But the statues were destroyed during the Reformation, and the niches left empty.

Today they are again filled with freshly coloured statues, commissioned by the Abbey from sculptor Rory Young. They depict seven martyrs, each carrying the martyr’s symbol of the palm branch. From left to right:

➡️Oscar Romero – Roman Catholic Archbishop of El Salvador, who stood up for the poor, assassinated during Mass in 1980

➡️St Alban Roe – imprisoned for a time in St Albans Abbey Gatehouse and hanged in London in 1642, having been found guilty of treason for being a Roman Catholic priest

➡️St Amphibalus – a Christian priest sheltered by St Alban, when Christianity was forbidden

➡️St Alban – The first British saint, beheaded in Roman Verulamium on the site of the Abbey in the third century AD

➡️George Tankerfield - burnt to death in 1555, in Romeland, an alley in St Albans, because as a Protestant, he refused the doctrine of transubstantiation

➡️St Elisabeth Romanova – a granddaughter of Queen Victoria and member of the Russian Royal Family and the Orthodox Church, becoming a nun and Abbess after her husband died. She was murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918

➡️Dietrich Bonhoeffer– Lutheran pastor and theologian, sent to a Nazi concentration camp, and tried with neither witness nor defence. He was hung in April 1945.

These are the sort of people we remember on All Saints' Day. The Dean of the Cathedral writes that there are “martyrs in every age – probably more now than there have been for many years – and inspire us to be braver ourselves in standing up for what we believe.”

Click below to hear a hymn for All Saints Day.

Salinas Anglican Congregation

WELCOME TO THE SALINAS ANGLICAN CONGREGATION THIS CHRISTMAS TIME🎄

At Christmas time we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ in a stable in Bethlehem. We are all familiar with the story - the little town of Bethlehem, the shepherds watching their flocks, the herald angels singing, the 3 Kings from Persian lands afar, and the birth of a small baby to young & humble, yet delighted, parents.

But sometimes we forget what an amazing story it is. Listen to Sir John Betjeman read his famous poem, ‘Christmas’ here, with the powerful final verse:

“No love that in a family dwells,
No carolling in frosty air,
Nor all the steeple-shaking bells
Can with this single Truth compare –
That God was man in Palestine
And lives today in Bread and Wine”

Do join us if you would like to, for our Christmas Eucharist, here at Salinas Church, 4pm (Spanish time) on Christmas Eve. Details of other Christmas services, at our churches in Salinas and Malaga, can be found here.

Listen to Amy Grant sing her lovely Christmas song, ‘I want a Silent Night’, here.

For more information about the Salinas Anglican Congregation, visit our website: http://www.salinaschurch.es

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The Revd Doreen Cage

Local Priest
+34 711 013 169
Father Hilary Oakley, Assistant Priest
+34 744 471 207

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Saturday 26th October, 11:30am Holy Eucharist for All Saints Day

Occurring
for 1 hour
Venue
Salinas Anglican Congregation
Address
Church of the Sagrado Corazón de Maria, Estacion de Salinas, Archidona, Málaga Province, 29315, Spain

All Saints’ Day, is the day we remember all the saints and martyrs of the church, both known and unknown.

When I was a child, we worshipped each Sunday at St Albans Abbey, the church of the first British martyr. At the front of the nave above the altar was a stone rood screen, built by Abbot Thomas de la Mare, around the time of the Black Death (1349-51). It contained seven empty niches, where brightly coloured statues had once stood. But the statues were destroyed during the Reformation, and the niches left empty.

Today they are again filled with freshly coloured statues, commissioned by the Abbey from sculptor Rory Young. They depict seven martyrs, each carrying the martyr’s symbol of the palm branch. From left to right:

➡️Oscar Romero – Roman Catholic Archbishop of El Salvador, who stood up for the poor, assassinated during Mass in 1980

➡️St Alban Roe – imprisoned for a time in St Albans Abbey Gatehouse and hanged in London in 1642, having been found guilty of treason for being a Roman Catholic priest

➡️St Amphibalus – a Christian priest sheltered by St Alban, when Christianity was forbidden

➡️St Alban – The first British saint, beheaded in Roman Verulamium on the site of the Abbey in the third century AD

➡️George Tankerfield - burnt to death in 1555, in Romeland, an alley in St Albans, because as a Protestant, he refused the doctrine of transubstantiation

➡️St Elisabeth Romanova – a granddaughter of Queen Victoria and member of the Russian Royal Family and the Orthodox Church, becoming a nun and Abbess after her husband died. She was murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918

➡️Dietrich Bonhoeffer– Lutheran pastor and theologian, sent to a Nazi concentration camp, and tried with neither witness nor defence. He was hung in April 1945.

These are the sort of people we remember on All Saints' Day. The Dean of the Cathedral writes that there are “martyrs in every age – probably more now than there have been for many years – and inspire us to be braver ourselves in standing up for what we believe.”

Click below to hear a hymn for All Saints Day.

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