{"id":2764,"date":"2024-01-19T17:53:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T17:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2764"},"modified":"2025-01-31T10:09:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T10:09:34","slug":"after-last-weeks-floods-our-waters-are-blessed-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2764","title":{"rendered":"After Last Weeks Floods, Our Waters Are Blessed Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Saint Edward Brotherhood Monks returned to Chertsey for their annual blessing of the waters, and luckily the water had subsided<\/a> otherwise I would have been stood in the river! There was a good turn out again as the sun shone to keep us all warm after the sub zero temperatures of late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

You can read more about why the monks come to Chertsey on the Epiphany, and about the two Saints that Chertsey has, in this blog post from a previous visit<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year they moved to doing the blessing on the bridge above the River Abbey so this years photos are a little different. Click on any image to see them large.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Apologies for the faux pas on the copyright date – the software messed it up obviously (not the idiot using the software), and it should be 2024 as they were taken today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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