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The Video “Mount St. Bernard Abbey, the
Final Resting Place of the Community from St. Mary’s Abbey Stratford
Langthorne” William de Montfichet founded St Mary’s Abbey in 1135 at Stratford Langthorne east of London (near to the site of the 2012 London Olympics) and it was closed in 1538 following the dissolution of the monasteries. By the end of the eighteenth century all traces of the Abbey had disappeared. It was not until work commenced to extend the Jubilee Line over the site and archaeological investigations were carried out between 1978 and 1994 that 674 burials of men, women and children were found. Following ten years of scientific and medical research on the bones at Bradford University it was decided that it would be fitting to rebury the remains at Mount St. Bernard Abbey, as it is now the only Cistercian Community in England. The Video records the reburial in a mass grave on 7th November 2005 of all but one of the Stratford Langthorne community and latter the celebration of Mass on July 25th 2009 when symbolically the bones of a male member of the community were carried in a solemn procession and buried at the site of the mass burial accompanied with prayers, psalms and the final anthem of the Cistercian day the ‘Salve Regina’. Copies on DVD of the exclusive Video record of this solemn historic event,
including a printed copy of the talk given by Dom Joseph Delargy, Abbot
of Mount St. Bernard Abbey, following ceremony of July 25th 2009, can be
obtained for £5.00 each plus P&P by emailing the Charley
Heritage Group.
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