We’re talking about Laurent Lenne, French and an ordained Anglican priest (actually, for the US Episcopalian diocese in Europe) working in Seyne-sur-Mer. At first sight Fr Laurent seems to be just one more of those splendid eccentrics so familiar in the ranks of Anglican parsons. Think of the nineteenth-century Devonshire vicar who livened up the BCP liturgy by occasionally sacrificing a goat at his altar or back in the Sixties the West London parish priest who regularly preached in favour of shoplifting (“Don’t worry ... Jesus would have done the same”) and was eventually found to have sheltered the Russian spy George Blake when he was on the run after hopping over the wall at Wormwood Scrubs.
Fr Laurent would welcome any of our readers to his services – conducted in French – at the Church of Saint Victor (1 rue Taylor) in Seyne-sur-Mer (Wednesday at 10h30, Sunday at 18h00). Seehttp://www.facebook.com/people/Laurent-Lenne/1437548596
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