Saturday, February 23, 2013

RUGBY SPECIAL: THE CHURCH OF RUGBY.



  1. BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Nepotism in ...

    www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p014knxs
    Go to World Service Programmes A-Z ... Image for Nepotism in Italy and France's rugby shrine ... Today 04:50 GMT BBC World Service ... Chris Bockman has been to the rugby-mad southwest corner of the country and a special church which ...

    Notre-Dame-du-Rugby: The Church of the Oval Ball

    www.lerugby.co.uk/.../438-notre-dame-du-rugby-the-church-...
    Feb 24, 2010 – Notre-Dame-du-Rugby: The Church of the Oval Ball ... Forget Stade deFrance, Aimé-Giral or Charles-Mathon, the true cathedral of French ...
  2. The Chapel of Our Lady of Rugby

    campus.udayton.edu/mary/ladyofrugby.html
    In the tiny, plain chapel of St.Savin in southwest France, God and rugby came together following the tragic deaths of three club members in a 1963 car crash.
  3. Badge of dishonour: French rugby's shameful secret - Rugby Union ...

    www.independent.co.uk › Sport › Rugby Union
    Sep 6, 2007 – Devert blames the Catholic Church for rugby's regional divide in France. "There was a time when playing rugby was seen by the church as a ...
  4. The Shrine of Our Lady of Rugby might explain how France ...

    areluctantsinner.blogspot.com/.../shrine-of-our-lady-of-rugby-...
    Oct 21, 2011 – It is generally agreed that France should not have made it through to the... to rugby's oval ball), is the small church of Notre Dame du Rugby.
  5. Rugby and religion in south-west France | Sport | The Guardian

    www.guardian.co.uk › Sport › France rugby union team
    Oct 27, 2003 – In south-west Francerugby is religion - so much so that one priest has... battle in France between church and state before the first world war, ...