The Miscarriage & Infant Loss Memorial Book, was a prayer

Prayer

Prayer is a form of religious practice that seeks to activate a volitional rapport to a deity through deliberate practice. Prayer may be either individual or communal and take place in public or in private. It may involve the use of words or song. When language is used, prayer may take the form of...

 request facility for those who suffered the loss of a baby from conception

Fertilisation

Fertilisation is the fusion of gametes to produce a new organism. In animals, the process involves the fusion of an ovum with a sperm, which eventually leads to the development of an embryo...

 to 3 years old. It is kept at the Church of St Paul the Apostle

St Paul's Church, Tintagel

The Catholic church of St Paul the Apostle, in Bossiney Road, Tintagel, Cornwall, was built in 1967 and consecrated by the Bishop of Plymouth, Cyril Restieaux, in February 1968. It was originally a CRL mission administered by the Canons Regular of the Lateran based in Bodmin, services being held in...

 in Tintagel

Tintagel

Tintagel is a civil parish and village situated on the Atlantic coast of Cornwall, United Kingdom. The population of the parish is 1,820 people, and the area of the parish is ....

, Cornwall

Cornwall

Cornwall is a unitary authority and ceremonial county of England, within the United Kingdom. It is bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. Cornwall has a population of , and covers an area of...

, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 where this book is placed on the altar

Altar

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 at all Masses. It is now closed for further entries.

History

The Miscarriage & Infant Loss Memorial Book was founded by Myke and Dr Miriam Rosenthal-English after the loss of their first baby "Ruth" aged 14 weeks due to miscarriage

Miscarriage

Miscarriage or spontaneous abortion is the spontaneous end of a pregnancy at a stage where the embryo or fetus is incapable of surviving independently, generally defined in humans at prior to 20 weeks of gestation...

 in 1995. Since then the Memorial Book project has grown from one which served the Roman Catholic Diocese of Plymouth

Diocese of Plymouth

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Plymouth is a Latin Rite Roman Catholic diocese in England. The episcopal see is Cathedral Church of St Mary and St Boniface, located in Plymouth, Devon. The diocese covers the counties of Cornwall, Devon and Dorset, stretching from Penzance and the Isles of Scilly in...

 into one which serves people of all beliefs, worldwide. On the 27th February 2011 after 16 years the Memorial Book was finally closed according to the website which is now referring those in need of prayer for their lost babies to Poor Clare Sisters in Wales.

See also

• Morning Light Ministry - A Catholic Ministry based in Canada which helps bereaved mothers & fathers in Canada
  Canada
  Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
  
   and the United States
  United States
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  which follows a similar mission and cooperated closely with Miscarriage & Infant Loss Memorial Book

External links

Plymouth is the Diocese where the Miscarriage & Infant Loss Memorial Book is based