Parish of All Saints

Cheltenham

THIS IS CHRISTIAN AID WEEk

The late May Bank Holiday is always an opportunity for the intrepid pilgrim to brave the wilds of rural Norfolk in order to take part in one of the biggest Festivals celebrating our Lady.

The weather forecast was bad - but undeterred we set off, and were rewarded by sunshine, even though we returned to discover Downham Market's roads awash and our friends' day out a total wash-out.

Click on each picture in the Gallery to get an enlarged view

Shrine and grounds	The procession leading out of the Shrine	The PEVs
The great Chancel Arch of the old Abbey	Bishop Lindsay Urwin, admitted as a Guardian of the Shrine in 2006	Italian Pigrims to the Shrine
Theological students enlisted to act as stewards for the day		Thurifer and lights
Guardians lead the way for Our Lady of Walsingham	Father Jeremy Sheehy, Guardian of the Shrine and Principal of St Stephen's House	Procession entering the Shrine flanked by torchbearers and Father Beau Brandie's Sea Cadets
Father Martin Warner leading - and behind the Image to the left Father Jonathan Baker, Prinicipal of Pusey House and the first married Guardian of the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham	Procession moving through the Shrine grounds before Benediction is given from the new outside Altar

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