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The Bangor Bell

'comes home'!

On Sunday 20 September the Diocese of Down and Dromore began a season of continuous prayer and invited parishioners throughout the diocese to take part.

Bangor Abbey (which enjoyed a 24/7 expression of prayer long before it became trendy!) held 24 hours of prayer beginning at 8.00 pm on Wednesday 21 October.

The prayer vigil concluded with a service of Holy Communion on Thursday 22 October 2009 and on a very special evening in Bangor Abbey, the Bangor Bell came 'home' to the site where it first rang out at Holy Communion over 1000 years ago.

Our thanks are due to Ian Wilson and the Bangor Museum for allowing us to borrow the bell and to bring our 24 hours of continuous prayer to an end in such an appropriate and memorable way.

click on the Bell for photos

Graveyard Clean-Up!

Bangor Abbey has a historic and fascinating graveyard. It is a social, economic and political history of this part of Ireland over at least 300 years. There are memorials to custom men and pirates, ambassadors and factory owners, clergy and crooks! The inscriptions testifying the deaths of whole families in the nineteenth century are moving indeed. A team of volunteers led by Harry Ellison are currently working on making it more accessible for visitors and improving the look of the grounds.

The Friends of Bangor Abbey are sponsoring the clean-up and pathways with the assistance (we hope!) of the tourist board.

Click here for some pictures of our intrepid band of volunteers hard at work.

The Thompson Brothers at Bangor Abbey
10 October 2009