Benedictines to sell church treasures worth £100,000

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About £100,000 worth of treasures from St Augustine’s Abbey in Kent are to be sold at auction next week.
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The objects being put up for sale include church plate, chalices – including a Charles I chalice made in 1633 and an Arts and Crafts chalice worth £13,000 to £15,000 – as well as reliquaries and a 19th-century monstrance.
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A spokesman for Dominic Winter said that all of the religious objects had been deconsecrated.
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I wonder how you deconsecrate a Monstrance?
 
I hope that purchasers are vetted and I pray that none of these items land in the hands of those who would use them to pursue dark pursuits.
 
I do hope St. Michael’s Abbey manages to buy at least some of them. It would be a pity for these items to stop being used for their intended sacred purposes.
 
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Ramsgate treasures saved for Church
Many of the ecclesiastical treasures from the former Benedictine Abbey in Ramsgate have been saved for the Church.
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The items, including monstrance, a silver chalice and various portraits, had been put up for sale by auction by the 11 monks of Ramsgate Abbey who last year moved to a smaller new home, a former Franciscan friary in Chilworth, Surrey.
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But the seven items have now been withdrawn from the auction and acquired through a private treaty sale by the Archdiocese of Southwark, and will be returned to St Augustine’s Church in Ramsgate, which Augustus Pugin designed and built next to his own house, The Grange.
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catholicherald.co.uk/news/2012/02/14/ramsgate-treasures-saved-for-church/
 
Revealed: the multi-millionaire who saved Ramsgate treasures
The man who saved the ecclesiastical treasures from the former Benedictine Abbey in Ramsgate is a former Muslim convert to Catholicism and football club owner from Lancashire, it emerged this week.
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Catholic philanthropist Ilyas Khan is a merchant banker and owner of Accrington Stanley Football Club, who converted in his 20s after discovering Hans Urs von Balthasar, the 20th-century Swiss theologian, as well as third-century Christian scholar Origen.
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Mr Khan also helps the Christian Heritage Centre Trust, which aims to raise £10 to £15 million for a Catholic Heritage Centre in Stonyhurst, and has the support of Lord Nicholas Windsor, Lord Guthrie and Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor.
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catholicherald.co.uk/news/2012/04/12/revealed-the-multi-millionaire-who-saved-ramsgate-treasures/
 
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