This concert is part of this year’s season of the popular sound meditations with Patrick Duff at Abbey House.
This sound meditation will explore the life of the martyr Blessed Richard Whiting, the final abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, and is written with the purpose of aiding contemplation.
Participants will be seated and encouraged to close their eyes and listen. The music will be minimal drones played on a keyboard, with improvised singing and spoken word.
If you’d prefer to lie down you are welcome to do so … but please bring your own blanket and cushions as Abbey House cannot provide these.
Each concert will begin at 7pm and last up to ninety minutes. Please do arrive a little early as the doors are closed at 7pm and it is not possible for latecomers to be admitted.
Tickets cost £10.
BLESSED RICHARD WHITING
Richard Whiting was born in Wrington in 1461. He attended school in Glastonbury Abbey before going to Cambridge University.
He returned to Somerset and was ordained a deacon and then a priest and eventually succeeded Richard Bere to become the abbot of Glastonbury Abbey in 1525. By most reports he was a noble, spiritual leader.
By 1539, Glastonbury was the last remaining monastery in England and by this time the reformation was in full swing. On Saturday, 15th November, after a brief trial in Wells, Richard Whiting along with two monks (Dom John Thorne and Dom Roger James) was dragged through the streets of Glastonbury on wooden hurdles by horses, then taken to the Tor and hung, drawn and quartered.
At the end of the 19th Century, Richard Whiting was beatified by Pope Leo X111.
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