SODOR & MAN: Webcam link for baptism

Posted: 18 May 2010 @ 00:00

by Margaret Duggan

IT WAS a case of nothing daunted in the diocese of Sodor & Man. When the volcano in Iceland prevented one of the godparents reaching St German’s Cathedral, in Peel, for a family baptism, he was still able to take part in the ceremony.

Graham Christian was temporarily trapped in Shanghai, where he works, and had to cancel his plans

to return to the Isle of Man for the christening of his nephew, Frank Christian Kelly, son of Ellen and ...

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