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18 March 2023

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18 March 2023

9:00 AM

Touching Cloth: Confessions and Communions of a Young Priest Fergus Butler-Gallie

Bantam, pp.288, 16.99

In A Field Guide to the English Clergy (2018), the Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie offered an amusing and informative survey of some of the more eccentric priests and prelates to have served the Church of England over the years. In Touching Cloth, he focuses on a contemporary eccentric: himself.

The book is an account of a year in his life as a young curate at the Church of Our Lady and St Nicholas in Liverpool.

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