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And now to concentrate on more local stuff.  Lori Squirrell, who lives just inside the ward, was awarded the Benemerenti medal for decades of service to St. Pancras church.

The Benemerenti medal is awarded by the Pope for long and faithful service to the Catholic church.  The word means well deserving person. Well done Lori.

Probably one of the more off beat dates for your diary, and not really starting in Bridge, the Meryemana pilgrimage walk starts in St Peters church (just accross Stoke Bridge) and ends in St Mary Elms.  It’s on on the 6th September (tomorrow) from St. Peter’s church, just across Stoke Bridge.

From the bulletin of St. Pancras’ parish:

Ipswich’s Own Madonna: OUR ANNUAL PILGRIMAGE WALK is taking place the Sunday 6 Sept at 3.00pm, from St Peter’s Church to the Shrine of our Lady of Grace via Lady Lane. Come and support this ecumenical event that honours Our Lady of Ipswich. Tea afterwards.

http://www.stmaryattheelms.org.uk/OurLadyOfGrace/shrine.htm

Bridge Ward doesn’t have a patron saint, but if we did it would be Saint Ethelreda or as Æthelthryth, whose feast day is today.  A royal princess, protege of the superstar Saxon bishop Saint Wilfrid and founder of the abbey at Ely (which became Ely Cathedral), her link to our side of Ipswich stems from the fact that from Saxon time Old Stoke belonged to and was built up by the Abbey at Ely.  St. Mary Stoke, or at least the bit that wasn’t built in the Nineteenth Century, was built by the same abbey.

The church that stood in Wherstead Road was dedicated to Saint Ethelreda, and Saint Mary at Stoke still displays a banner for her.

So happy Saint’s day one and all.

Saint Mark’s parish, to which all Roman Catholics in Bridge Ward belong to (even if many of us go to Saint Pancras over the river which for many of us is a shorter walk) has celebrated it’s 50th year with a Mass on 30th May celebrated by Bishop Michael Evans.  There were some pictures on their website.

If you would like to promote your church events that are local to Bridge on this site, then email james@bridgeward.org.uk