Freemasons donate £450,000 for hospices across England and Wales

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The Masonic Charitable Foundation are delighted to announce that the Charity Grants Committee has approved £450,000 for hospices across England and Wales. In total, the Masonic Community has awarded over £12 million to the hospices since 1984 through the Masonic Charitable Foundation.

Serennu children’s centre, in Newport, receives £25k donation from Freemasons

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A CHILDREN’S centre which provides care for young people with disabilities has received a £25,000 donation.

The Serennu children’s centre, in the Rogerstone area of Newport, has received the donation from The Masonic Province of Monmouthshire.

Historical Origins of the Mark Degree

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The Mark is a ceremony or degree [sometimes called the ‘friendly’ degree], conferrable today only to Master Masons and forms part of a hierarchical organization. In Craft Masonry it was quite a late innovation making its appearance during the mid-1700s.  However we do know that Operative Masons, without any kind of ceremony, were taking marks 150 years before the Mark came into use as part of that particular ceremony.