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The Catholic church of St. Etheldreda, Ely is a Roman Catholic parish church in Ely, Cambridgeshire, UK. It is part of the Diocese of East Anglia within the Province of Westminster. The church notably contains the shrine and relics of St. Etheldreda, an Anglo Saxon queen and abbess who died on 23 June AD 679 and went on to became one of the most popular of the medieval saints in England.〔(St Etheldreda, (David Nash Ford's Early British Kingdoms) )〕 She has even been described as one of "the most significant of all native English Saints."〔Virginia Blanton, Signs of Devotion: The Cult of St. Aethelthryth in Medieval England 695-1615, Pennsylvania State Univ Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-271-02984-9, p.3〕 ==History of the parish and church== By the middle of the nineteenth century the town of Ely had approximately 600 families〔Alexander Wood, St. Etheldreda and her Churches in Ely and London: A Preliminary Notice of the Catholic Memorials and Missions in the Vicinity of the Latter and a Supplementary Account of Ely House, (A lecture Read at St. Etheldreda's Ely Place, 2 March 1876), Papers in the Cambridgeshire Collection C52 p.14〕 and there were some 30-40 Catholics living in the district.〔See the 30 March 1851 Ecclesiastical Census, cited in Tim Glasswell, 'The Rectorship of Canon Quinlivan 1843-1883, p.81-96 in Nicholas Rogers, Catholics in Cambridge, Gracewing 2003, p.85〕 but there was no resident priest. At that time there was a single missionary rector based in Cambridge, Canon Thomas Quinlivan. With the opening of the London to Norwich railway line in July 1845 this made it easier for Canon Quinlivan to travel to Ely and say occasional masses in a private house in the town.〔Patrick Bright, A History of the Catholic Church of Saint Etheldreda in the City of Ely (Private Publication, 1987, held in the Cambridgeshire Collection) p.1〕 The parish of St. Etheldreda began as a distinct and separate mission in 1890 when Fr John Francis Freeland was sent to Ely and opened the first place of worship by partitioning his lodging room to create a tiny chapel.〔Patrick Bright, A History of the Catholic Church of Saint Etheldreda in the City of Ely (Private Publication, 1987, held in the Cambridgeshire Collection) p.1〕 In 1891 the population of Ely numbered 8017〔(Cambridgeshire History on the Net (The Cambridge Collection) )〕 and the first Roman Catholic congregation numbered just 16 worshippers. With numbers rising, Fr Freeland purchased ground and opened a small corrugated iron chapel in 1892 on part of the site upon which the later St. Etheldreda's church would be built.〔Patrick Bright, A History of the Catholic Church of Saint Etheldreda in the City of Ely (Private Publication, 1987, held in the Cambridgeshire Collection) p.1-2. The date given for the opening of the church is 1891 in the town records (Cambridgeshire History on the Net (The Cambridgeshire Collection) )〕 The original iron church still exists at Thorney Toll as it was used as a chapel until about 1973, dedicated to St. Patrick. It was then sold and used as a garage〔(The Introduction to Owen Garvey's Letter to The Wisbech Telegraph ). See also P Bright, Op. Cit p.3〕 When the parish church opened in 1892 the services offered were as follows: * Sunday mass at 8.30a.m. and 11a.m. * catechism 3p.m. & rosary, instruction & benediction 6.30p.m. * daily mass 8a.m., holidays of obligation, mass 9 a.m.〔(Cambridgeshire History on the Net (The Cambridgeshire Collection) )〕 The parish grew gradually, numbering about 100 by the early 1930s〔Patrick Bright, A History of the Catholic Church of Saint Etheldreda in the City of Ely (Private Publication, 1987, held in the Cambridgeshire Collection) p.5〕 In the period around, and after, the second world war, there were up to 300,000 Italian and German Prisoners of War based in the fens, a number of whom were based at a camp in Ely and worshipped at St. Etheldreda's.〔R Douglas Brown, East Anglia 1945, Terence Dalton Ltd, 1994, ISBN 0-86138-102-5 p.94. See also P Bright, Op. Cit p.7〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「St Etheldreda's Church, Ely」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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