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Spiritual joy

Spiritual joy can be a source of strength. Like the optimistic Pollyanna, there’s a lot to be said for finding reasons to rejoice, even in adversity.

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When monarchs healed the sick

Our current Queen fortunately doesn’t have to spend hours laying hands on the sick to cure them. But it was a different story for monarchs of the early modern era, whose touch was a sought-after treatment for scrofula.

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  • Christ Church, Oxford: chaplains' quadrangle. Wood engraving.
  • Christ Church, Oxford: chaplains' buildings from the meadow. Line engraving by J.H. Le Keux, 1863, after himself.
  • Boer War: a chaplain administering the Sacrament to a dying soldier on a battlefield. Halftone, c. 1900, after F. J. Waugh.
  • A wounded British soldier being visited in an Egyptian hospital by a monk, a sister of mercy and a chaplain. Wood engraving after F. Villiers.
  • A prison chaplain (Henry Labouchère) is visiting the journalist Edmund Yates in prison. Colour lithograph by Judd & Co. after Tom Merry, 3 May 1884.
  • Bronze medal: bust of Alfred Fournier, and Fournier and Eros.
  • The Royal Hospital, Haslar, Hampshire: from the harbour. Aquatint by J. Wells, 1799, after J. Hall.
  • Royal Hospital, Haslar, near Portsmouth: view from right. Coloured aquatint with etching by J. Wells, 1799, after J. Hall.
  • Royal Hospital, Haslar, near Portsmouth: view from far right. Coloured aquatint with etching by J. Wells, 1799, after J. Hall.
  • Royal Hospital, Haslar, near Portsmouth: view from right. Coloured aquatint with etching by J. Wells, 1799, after J. Hall.
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