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NEW DEAN                                             ART EXHIBITION


         The Revd Canon                                       RETURNS
         Sarah Brown is to be

         the next Dean of                                     After last year’s Ludlow Art Society
         Hereford, the first                                  Summer Exhibition was cancelled due
         woman to take up the                                 to the Covid-19 pandemic we are
         role in the 1,300-year                               excited to be back in St Laurence’s
         history of the diocese.                              church for the 2021 exhibition.

         The Dean is the senior priest in the                 After a formal opening ceremony on

         Cathedral and chair of the Chapter, the              Friday 20 August the exhibition will be
         governing body of the Cathedral.  She                open daily from 10am to 5pm, until 5pm
         has overall responsibility for the                   on Sunday 30 August.
         Cathedral’s life, mission and ministry,              Admission is free and various artists
         and represents the Cathedral in the city             will be in residence each day ready and
         and county, holding responsibilities in              willing for a chat.  There will be a wide
         the wider Diocese.  At Hereford, she                 range of pictures in watercolour, oil,

         also has overall responsibilities for                acrylics and mixed media as well as
         administration, finance and fabric.                  browsers filled with interesting pieces

         Sarah came to faith in her late twenties,            and cards.
         encountering God in her village church               So there will be plenty to look at or to
         where she joined the choir and                       buy at a wide range of prices, all to
         “discovered the power of church music,               tempt your interest.
         the care of a Christian community, the               If something takes

         teaching of a wonderful rural vicar and
         finally, in utter astonishment which                 your fancy, payment
         persists to this day, the disarming love             can be accepted by
                                                              card, cash or cheque.
         and forgiveness of God.“  She was
         ordained in 2008 following a career in               We look forward to

         corporate sales and marketing and lead               seeing you.
         FCN, a national farming charity, while
         studying theology and serving her                       epitaphs
         curacy.  Sarah is currently Canon
         Missioner at Peterborough Cathedral in                  Found on headstones
         the diocese of Peterborough where she                   In London:
         has spent most of her adult life.
                                                                 Here lies Ann Mann
         Sarah is married to Richard and they                    Who lived an old maid

         have two children: Alice, who is a
         musician; and Edward, who is training to                But died an old Mann.
         be a vet.  She will be installed as Dean                In Maryland:
         of Hereford at a special service which                  Here lies an Atheist
         will take place in Hereford Cathedral in                All dressed up and nowhere to go.
         the autumn.


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