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1369
St Nicholas the Wet by Clay Lane

Two frantic parents implore St Nicholas’s help in rescuing their baby boy.

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1370
St Patrick of Ireland by Clay Lane

After escaping from six years as a slave in Ireland, Patrick wanted only one thing: to go back.

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1371
St Patrick’s Breastplate from Irish Tradition

A morning hymn attributed to the fifth-century Irish bishop, St Patrick.

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1372
St Wilfrid and the Angel of Light by Clay Lane

St Wilfrid finds comfort during his tussle with the King of Northumbria

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1373
St Wilfrid and the Fishers of Men by Clay Lane

Driven out of Northumbria, Bishop Wilfrid goes to the south coast and saves a kingdom from starvation.

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1374
St Wilfrid and the Sheriff’s Wife by Clay Lane

St Wilfrid brings healing to the wife of his own gaoler.

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How Britain Brought Football to Chile : British expats in Valparaíso kicked off the Chilean passion for soccer.
The Two Shakespeares : Arthur Clutton-Brock complained that idealising Shakespeare had made him dull.
Fairway : Use each noun below in two sentences, first as the subject, and then as the object of a verb.
England Expects : Lieutenant John Pasco not only flew the most famous signal in British history, he helped write it.
Running Late : Use these adverbial clauses in your own sentences.
Peggy’s Dog : Some lines from the comic verse of Thomas Hood, for reading aloud.
An Interruption : Report this conversation without using direct speech.
Tender Plants : Prince Albert regretted the destructive power of the Art Critic.
Lost for Words : Join these ideas together into a single sentence, using ‘although’ or ‘though’.
Loan Words : Match these words to the language they come from, whether Old Norse, Malay or Welsh.
Evidence : Join these ideas together to form a single sentence, using the relative pronoun ‘who’.
Fatal Vow : Robert Pierrepont called heaven to witness that he would never pick a side in the Civil War.
Lost and Found : What would you in these difficult situations?
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