Society of Saint Francis

18 January 1904 – 23 December 2003

May he rest in peace; and rise in Glory.

At St Philips Friary

I think that it was in January 1950 or 1951, while I was a student at King’s College, London, that I went with other students to a very well attended meeting in the Methodist Central Hall in Westminster, [...]

It was in the late summer of 1923 that I first met Brother Douglas. He had recently taken charge of the little Franciscan community of volunteers and vagrant ‘wayfarers’ travelling the country in search of work. He was wearing a boiler suit with a red cross on the breast pocket. There was no unemployment benefit [...]

Edited version of a sermon in Pusey House Chapel, Oxford in 1978

William Strowan Amherst Robertson (1894-1957) was one of the pioneers of the Franciscan movement in the Anglican Church. He was “darling Strowan” to his mother, but everyone else knew him as “Algy”, a nickname of early and obscure origin. It fitted him admirably: [...]