Originally published at The Crux
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HUSBANDS BOSWORTH, United Kingdom – Nearly 2,000 people live in Husbands Bosworth, a quaint village in the south of Leicestershire, where stands the large, ancient All Saints’ Anglican Church.
Only once every six weeks do services take place at All Saints, which is part of a multi-church Anglican parish comprising several villages.
The local Catholic church, Saint Mary’s, offers two Masses each Sunday, drawing people from the village and elsewhere.
If you do not live in Husbands Bosworth, Saint Mary’s is hard to find. It is hidden behind rows of trees near Bosworth Hall, the owners of which are a recusant family. Recusants are the ones who kept the Catholic faith in England after the English Reformation.
The entire village of Husbands Bosworth is within the parish territory of Our Lady of Victories in the town of Market Harborough, but Saint Saint Mary’s belongs to the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, which was established by Pope Benedict XVI in 2011 to serve former Anglicans who wish to observe their particular ritual use.
