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Feb. 26 Making a boy into a Bishop; The boy Bishop's chaplain, 13 year old Stewart Mount, reads out the petition that the boy shall become a bishop, according to the ancient tradition and custom. A boy is made a Bishop - for 23 days; Thirteen year old Timothy Owen Burks was made a boy Bishop according to the centuries old custom and ceremonies at St. Mary of the Angel song school, Addlestone, Surrey. famous as a boarding school producing choristers known as Angels, and run by the rev. Desmond Morse Boycott, a causing of the Premier Annually the boys elect one of their number he must however be able to get into the vestments have a good voice and be of the very best character for the ceremony and succeeding engagements which last until holy innocents day. His only reward other than a spiritual one, is a golden guinea, and that of his chaplain or runner up in the voting. half a guinea. the origins of having Boy bishops at Christmas time is ancient the ceremonies and subsequent engagements were very elaborate and surrounded by veneration by the populase. Henry VIII made a declaration that boy Bishops should be elected, sit on thrones and reveals that he probably delivered a Sermon. As early as 1262, St. Paul's Cathedral records show that there was a Boy Bishop. Out of him vestments, the bishop is just an ordinary schoolboy: in them he receives from his fellow pupils, the respect that his temporary high office requires

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