Cirencester's first 'Festival of the Donkey' (From Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard)
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Special festival at Cirencester Church
5:33pm Tuesday 19th March 2013 in News By Emma Boden
DONKEYS will take the leading role in a church service in the run up to Easter.
Cirencester’s first Festival of the Donkey will bring together people of all ages with a special focus on including the elderly, disabled, people with special needs and their carers.
Amongst the congregation will be at least six donkeys and two sheep.
Invitations have been sent to children from special needs schools throughout Cirencester and North Wiltshire.
MP Geoffrey Clifton-Brown will also be attending.
The festival marks the revival of an ancient French tradition which used to mark the biblical role of the donkey on Ash Wednesday.
The service will start at Cirencester Parish Church at 10.45am on March 20.
Comments(7)
Union Man
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10:09pm Tue 19 Mar 13
Iansky
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8:47am Wed 20 Mar 13
Hopefully, they will receive a bit of Divine Inspiration and get on with making Ciren better rather than improving their skills at Procrastinating.....
.....40yrs deciding on the improvements to the Market Place must earn a page in the Guinness book of world records!
Crispin Mount
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2:39pm Wed 20 Mar 13
cirencabbie
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9:15am Mon 25 Mar 13
cirencabbie
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9:17am Mon 25 Mar 13
Iansky
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9:37am Tue 26 Mar 13
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I appear to have been edited which makes my comment appear worse than it actually was: final word is alpha, sierra, sierra
Olly Cromwell says...
7:30pm Tue 19 Mar 13