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come and learn to love and pray, and then 

 they go to other places and to other lands 

 to carry the spirit of Llanthony far and wide.' 7 



The remarkable establishment is not Roman 

 Catholic, as is usually supposed, but strictly 

 monastic. It is described as "The cradle of 

 the widely-spread monastic revival all over the 

 land, and noted all over the world." "The 

 two popular days for visiting the monastery 

 are Ascension Day and the anniversary of 

 the apparition of our ' Lady of Llanthony ' 

 (3oth August), when there are continuous pub- 

 lic services in the monastery church. The 

 visitors are of all denominations, from Roman 

 Catholics to Salvationists, from nobles to 

 ploughboys." 



Father Ignatius was the son of Mr. Francis 

 Lyne, a much respected London merchant, 

 with whom, notwithstanding a wide difference 

 in their religious opinions, he had lived in 

 perfect harmony till within the last ten years 

 of his father's life. It then happened that a 

 family dispute arose between Mr. Lyne and 

 another member of the home circle. The 

 settlement of it was left finally to the arbitra- 

 tion of Father Ignatius, whose judgment was 



