Posts Tagged ‘Carl Mydans’

Cardboard Congregation

December 5, 2008

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Carl Mydans, Rector of Warleggan, 1953

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Carl Mydans, Rector, 1953

Reverend Frederick William Densham, the aged and eccentric Rector of St. Bartholomew’s Church in Warleggan, England, walks the path alongside the church to which he was appointed in 1931. On account of his eccentricity, the entire congregation abandoned his services and the Reverend was left to preach to cardboard figures he made and placed in the pews. His Service Register was said to have read “no fog, no wind, no rain, no congregation.”