Letter: Bones to pick

Jane Gibson
Saturday 29 June 1996 23:02 BST
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This afternoon I made a pilgrimage to Shaftesbury Abbey. Along the way, my husband and I met two friends. We were the only four who made the pilgrimage from Melbury Abbas.

Back home and comfortably settled with the Sunday paper, I was amazed to find that Emma Brooker had been expecting 400 people, a protest march, a call for the return of the bones of St Edward to Shaftesbury Abbey ("Monks in tug of war over Saxon king's holy bones", 23 June). Had we missed the other 396 people? We certainly had not talked of bones. No thoughts of protest entered our heads. We simply stayed on in the abbey to join an ecumenical service to celebrate the feast of St Edward.

The legal wrangle over the ownership of St Edward's bones is old news and should not be confused with the celebration of his feast day.

Jane Gibson

Shaftesbury, Dorset

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