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SUMMARY:Pilgrimage in London – The first of many celebrations for Sir Francis Bacon in 2026
DESCRIPTION:A pilgrimage to places connected with Sir Francis Bacon\, Viscount St Alban.\nA 2026 Bacon400 Celebration led by Peter Dawkins and Jonathan Tod.\nPlease come and join us for this special pilgrimage celebrating Sir Francis Bacon\, Viscount St Alban. 2026 is the Quatercentenary of the death and burial of Francis Bacon\, and this pilgrimage is the inner or more private beginning of the public celebrations which will unfold over the course of the year. \nThe 2026 Bacon400 London pilgrimage will start at St Martin-in-the-Fields\, where Francis Bacon was baptised on 25 January 1561\, then proceed to the site of York House\, Bacon’s London home when growing up and then later when he was Lord Keeper and Lord Chancellor. \nAfter this we will walk to the site of Essex House\, where the Shakespeare Circle used to meet. Essex House (previously Leicester House) was built on the site of the Outer Temple of the Knights Templar. \nFollowing this\, we will walk through to Middle Temple Fountain Court\, on the south side of which is Middle Temple Hall\, where the Shakespeare play\, Twelfth Night\, was enacted. \nWe will then proceed to the Inner Temple\, where we will visit Temple Church\, the round church of the Knights Templar. \nAfter this\, we will have a celebratory lunch in the Luncheon Room of the Inner Temple\, which has been reserved for our private use. \nAfter lunch we will walk to the site of Temple Bar\, marked by the Temple Bar Memorial\, and then proceed eastwards along Fleet Street\, crossing the River Fleet\, and ascending Ludgate Hill to St Paul’s Cathedral and the relocated Temple Bar Archway designed by Sir Christopher Wren. \nThe Inner Temple Inn of Court twins Gray’s Inn of Court\, where Francis Bacon had his lawyer’s chambers and of which he was Treasurer for many years. Twinship is the key to everything\, and we aim to celebrate twinship! \nAnother example of twinship is that of government and people\, wherein their friendship and judiciously balanced interdependence is crucial to democracy. \nTemple Bar\, as originally positioned\, is where the Liberty of Westminster meets the Liberty of the City of London. Temple Bar is thus symbolic of the democratic judicial balance between the government and the people\, which underlies our constitutional democracy. \nYet another twinship is that of the two eminent personages called St Alban – the 3rd/4th century Romano-British St Alban and the 16th/17th century English Viscount St Alban. \nThis pilgrimage is designed to inaugurate a St Alban II pilgrimage route\, which will twin the St Alban I pilgrimage route. \nThe St Alban I pilgrimage route starts in London and ends at St Alban’s Cathedral\, which marks the burial place of the Romano-British St Alban and contains the saint’s shrine. \nThe St Alban II pilgrimage route will also start in London (this pilgrimage marks the first steps on the route) and will end at St Michael’s Church\, St Albans\, where Viscount St Alban’s body was buried in the chancel vault\, with an enigmatic sculpted memorial monument placed in the chancel above. \nThere will be a pre-pilgrimage talk on Zoom by Peter Dawkins at 5pm (GMT) on Sunday 18 January. This will be private\, for those who participate in this pilgrimage. \nFor further information and booking\, please contact the Organiser (FBRT). \nPhoto: Tilman2007. Wikimedia Commons: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
URL:https://www.fbrt.org.uk/event/pilgrimage-in-london-the-first-of-many-celebrations-for-sir-francis-bacon-in-2026/
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SUMMARY:Freemasonic Twinship and the Two Alban Saints
DESCRIPTION:A talk on Zoom by Peter Dawkins about the universal law of twinship\, or friendship\, and how it manifested in the foundational legends of Freemasonry concerning the two saints called Alban and the two types of Freemasonry\, Craft and Speculative. \nThe two saints called Alban are the Romano-Celtic officer\, whose name is veiled as ‘Alban’\, and Sir Francis Bacon\, who was given the title Viscount St Alban. \nThe first St Alban is reputed to be the founder and first Grand Master of Craft Freemasonry in England (Roman Britain)\, whilst the second St Alban is cryptically recognised as the founder and first Grand Master of Speculative Freemasonry in England c.1300 years later. \nWe shall also look at the meaning of the place or places associated with the St Alban legends\, the shrines or monuments erected in their memory and how they connect with each other\, and the Freemasonic and Rosicrucian wisdom knowledge underlying all this. \nFor those who attend this Zoom talk\, there will be time for questions\, answers and insights after the talk.  \n\nTo book\, please contact the Organiser (FBRT). \nIf booking accepted\, on receipt of payment\, the Zoom link will be sent to you. \nA recording of the talk (but not of the sharing afterwards) can be made available for attendees if requested\, as also for those who pay for the talk but do not attend it live on Zoom. Please contact the Organiser (FBRT). \nThe displayed picture is a coloured version of the AA-Gemini headpiece printed in the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio.
URL:https://www.fbrt.org.uk/event/freemasonic-twinship-and-the-two-alban-saints/
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