Dr. Simon Cotton is honorary senior lecturer in chemistry at the University of Birmingham in the U.K. and a former churchwarden of St. Giles, Norwich, and St. Jude, Peterborough. He is a member of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.
Saulieu is a small town around 45 miles west of Dijon. Its church of Saint Andoche is believed to trace its foundation to the early years of the fourth century.
The rebuilding campaign of St. Peter and St. Paul Church was led not by a vicar or a knight but by a remarkable lady, Anne Herling Chamberlain Wingfield.
Life was not kind to Germaine Cousin (1579-1601). Her stereotypically cruel stepmother forced Germaine to have her bed in a shed, and she was not allowed to go to school, working instead as a shepherdess.
