Spirituality

Discover how love for each single person inspired the work of the Priory.

The Priory Canons followed the rule of St Augustine, (354 – 430), who is recognised as a Saint in the Anglican Communion, the Catholic Church and the Eastern Christian Church. St Augustine was a Roman African and acknowledged as one of the most important Church Fathers whose writings and ideas influenced Western Philosophy as well as Christianity. E.g. St Augustine encourages “Love the sinner, hate the sin”.

During mediaeval times religious ideas and Saints’ lives influenced everyday life and people were encouraged to learn from the Bible, St Augustine and other Saints. Many of the Saints’ lives described and celebrated at Launceston’s Priory, through their Book of Hours, will have been Cornish men and women. These spiritual and practical ideas inspired people to achieve more as a community, in their families and as individuals.

Our legal, political and caring systems have grown from the background of knowing that each single person has importance.

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It is known that the Church of St Thomas the Apostle was a part of the Priory in Launceston. However, it was initially named after St Thomas a Becket who is ‘also known as Saint Thomas of Canterbury and was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until his murder, by the Kings men, in 1170’. We think Launceston’s St Thomas the Apostle Church may have changed its name at a time when it was not helpful to be linked with someone who challenged a King. We have research to do. Or maybe you know?

Specific practical and spiritual gifts given to the community in and around the Priory.

We will be developing and collating ideas and links to mediaeval Pilgrim routes, roads and the likely traffic; e.g. within Launceston’s Priory vicinity and to places like Glasney College, St Michael’s Mount, Exeter Catherdral, Canterbury even.

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Spirituality

Discover how love for each single person inspired the work of the Priory.

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