O God, who didst deliver thine Apostle Peter from his bonds and suffer him to depart unhurt: Vouchsafe, we beseech thee, to deliver us from the bonds of our sins, and of thy mercy preserve us from all evil; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
St Stephen’s is not only Anglican, but anglophilic, and so we note that the Feast of St Peter in Chains is the patronal festival of Shrewsbury Abbey in Ellis Peter’s Chronicles of Brother Cadfael. The St Peter’s Fair celebrated in the eponymous novel is actually a Lammastide fair.