nicholasferrar-afterportraitbycorneliusjanssens Published December 1, 2016 at 800 × 1146 in Evening Prayer 1.12.16, Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon of Little Gidding, 1637 Next → Deacon Nicholas Ferrer founded a family-based religious community at Little Gidding which became a forerunner of the re-establishment of monasteries in England after the Restoration of Charles II. (after a portrait by Cornelius Janssens)