Tuesday, March 28, 2017

History...

...is all around us in London, and every Catholic History Walk yields new discoveries as we all as opportunities to mull over the events of the centuries...

People are always intrigued to be told that the Blessed Virgin Mary, holding the infant Saviour, is at the centre of the Westminster City coat of arms. I can see, as I lead them across Victoria Street to the tall, boring office slab  that that is the City Hall, that they just don't believe me. Then they take a look at the great Coat of Arms on the wall - which some, as Londoners, have walked pass hundreds of times....

Westminster -  centred on the minster, established by King (St) Edward the confessor, to the west of London - became a city in its own right in the 1960s,  and the present Coat of Arms dates from that time.  But the link with Our Lady goes back centuries. City info, plus pic of the coat of arms, here   but to get the story of the link w. Our Lady, you really need to come on a Catholic History Walk - or invite me to your parish/college/school/conference...


1 comment:

brendan said...

Just finished watching," Walking through time:Catholic London" on EWTN. What a very enjoyable programme that was.