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27/03/2016

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Fire and Light: A sunrise service from St Augustine's Shrine, Ramsgate.

Fire and Light: An Easter sunrise service led by Fr Marcus Holden at the Shrine of St Augustine of Canterbury, Ramsgate. With music from the Victoria Consort.

Fire and Light: the Gothic Revival splendour of Augustus Pugin's personal Church in Ramsgate on the Kent coast is now the Shrine of St Augustine of Canterbury, from where the Rector, Fr Marcus Holden, lights the Paschal Candle from the Easter Fire and leads a Sunrise Service for Easter Day. The Shrine is famed for its Gregorian Chant and Renaissance Polyphony, and Director of Music, Thomas Neal, leads The Victoria Consort in Easter hymns and seasonal music and chant. Plus, a specially-composed sonnet by Sister Mary Stephen. Producer: Rowan Morton-Gledhill.

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