Wicked Weather for Walking: A Passiontide Progress

by Stephen Platten

Rudyard Kipling's poem, Eddi's Service, from which this book takes its title, is a set of verses put into the mouth of Eddius Stephanus, St Wilfrid's earliest biographer. Set in the tiny chapel at Manhood End, close to Selsey Bill, it tells of a dedicated priest persevering with a midnight celebration despite appalling weather, and with just a donkey and bullock as his companions. Reflecting the challenges of the seventh-century missions to Britain...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789591910
• ISBN13: 9781789591910
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Sacristy Press
• Length: 76 Pages
• Weight: 0.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"