This was what happened on 27th April, in the words of one of our members who e-mailed afterwards: "That was the most amazing meeting!   The excitement and enthusiasm were incredible ."

It was the Annual Meeting we held after our joint Chaplaincy Service (Venice and Padova together), and indeed, it was richly blessed, but I couldn't really have put 'Annual Meeting' as the title of this, or you wouldn't have bothered to open it!

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400th Appeal - Fundraising for stage 3              

 St. George’s Day     Wednesday, 23rd April, 2008

22nd April. I 'm sorry to all readers (assuming there are any!) for my long silence on the blog - Preparations leading to Holy Week and Easter overwhelmed me. We had splendid celebrations for Palm Sunday and then for Easter at Venice on Easter Day, at Padova the following Sunday (30th March) and at Trieste only last Sunday, 20th April. All told, over 220 people attended; Venice became host to an extra 40 lovely people on tour from the US, as well as our usual 100+.

The patronal festival (St.George’s day, 23rd April) in 2005 was the occasion of the first ‘Great Dragon Hunt’ in celebration of the 400th Anniversary of St. George’s Chaplaincy.

It proved rather more successful than we anticipated, so you can now do the hunt on any day by contacting the Chaplain.
Tel.(+39 Italy) O41 520 0571.

The hunt involves finding a number of images (reliefs on buildings and paintings) scattered all over Venice, of St. George and the Dragon,

St George & The Dragon