26 March 2015, The Tablet

For all occasions


 
Priests in penal times had to travel light so what better than a reversible chasuble that could be worn to celebrate Mass in Ordinary Time, and also for requiems? Such a garment exists in the collection of treasures owned by Ushaw College.The seventeenth-century chasuble (pictured) features in Treasures of Ushaw College, a new book about the extraordinary collection of artefacts owned by the college, located outside Durham, which was the seminary for the north of England until 2011. Also in the
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