ANIMALS GO TO CHURCH
PETS AT WEDDINGS. Should pete attend church? At several fashionable weddings in London recently the bride and groom have been greeted bv their dogs as they came from the church. Cats, too, have appeared, and at one wedding the bride was met by her pet monkey at the door The Rev. Basil Bourchier, of St. Anne s, Soho, says: “After all, what harm is there nroviding that the animal does not make’ a noise? A friend of mine, a Roman Catholic priest, agrees with me. He has a magnificent St. Bernard dog, which attends church every day and lies nt the foot of the altar throughout the service. “ The friendship between a man and his doc is a beautiful thing, but an animal may not be buried in consecrated ground. A man I knew asked that his dog be buried with him, but because of this law the man had to be buried near the wall of the churchyard and the dog just outside.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21430, 3 September 1931, Page 2
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