2001, reprinted 2003, 2007) Fursey Occasional Paper number 1 Foreword by the Rt Revd Graham James, The Bishop of Norwich The inaugural Fursey Lecture was given by Michelle Brown in 2000. She gathers together the current state of knowledge about Fursey, following him from Ireland - to become the first Irish leader in the English church - to France, where he died; he became the object of veneration shortly afterwards. Brown reviews the sources for our knowledge of Fursey, both textual and from place-name studies. For Brown, Fursey represents 'charity and a sense of compassion', and is an ideal model for 'the ecumenical celebration of the Christian faith'. Dunn, Marilyn The vision of St Fursey and the development of purgatory (Fursey Pilgrims, 2007) Fursey Occasional Paper number 2 The Visio of Fursey is recognized to contain one of the earliest coherent expressions of the idea of purgatory, which would not reach its fullest form until some six hundred years after Fursey's death. In her lecture, Marilyn Dunn considers the concept of purgatory and the place of the Visio in its development. Roberts, Jane Guthlac of Crowland, a Saint for Middle England (Fursey Pilgrims, 2009) Fursey Occasional Paper number 3 Guthlac of Crowland was a near contemporary of Fursey, dying in 714, as well as being located not too far distant from the area of Fursey's English ministry. Jane Roberts highlights the story of Guthlac, then compares elements of the two saints' Lives. Although little remembered today, the once great abbey of Crowland, and hints of Guthlac in later English literature, testify to his significance in English historical tradition. Hoggett, Richard Beyond Bede: The History and Archaeology of the East Anglian Missions (Fursey Pilgrims, 2010) Fursey Occasional Paper number 4 The Venerable Bede provides one principal source for our knowledge of Fursey; using Bede as a starting point, Richard Hoggett considers the historical and political context of Fursey's East Anglia, and presents the archaeological evidence for and against the competing identifications of Fursey's Cnobheresburg. Casey, Aine The Vita Fursei and its use by Bede and Aelfric (Fursey Pilgrims, 2010) Fursey Occasional Paper number 5 O Riain, Padraig Fursa's Irish Origins: Munster, Connacht or Ulster? (Fursey Pilgrims, 2015) Fursey Occasional Paper number 6 Wooding, Jonathan M. St Fursey: Pilgrim and Visionary (Fursey Pilgrims, 2015) Fursey Occasional Paper number 7 References Bibliography Ann Williams, Alfred P. Smyth and D. P. Kirby (1991). A