‘Songs of Praise’ and the Ilkley Connection – Sunday 14 March

SONGS OF PRAISE, SUNDAY 14 MARCH 2021, BBC2 AT 1.15PM.

Sr Anne Hammersley, from The Briery in Ilkley, is being interviewed about Venerable Elizabeth Prout, also known as Mother Mary Joseph, the foundress of The Cross and Passion Sisters.

Please tune in to learn about the history of this fascinating woman who started a religious Order in the slums of Manchester in the mid-nineteenth century, and one which has played such an important role in the history of our own Diocese.