Monday 12 October 2009 was the first day on which people in London had the opportunity to venerate the relic of St Therese following its arrival in Church Street Kensington on Sunday evening. We celebrated the event with an 8 mile walk through South West London led by Ron Scott and I took the following photographs as we went along:
I'm afraid I mistimed arrival at Church Street and we arrived to find the relic had already been taken on its way to Westminster So we took a couple of photographs of the empty Church and proceeded on the walk Before long we walked by the Diana Fountain, a memorial to the late Diana Princess of Wales. |
We paused a while in front of Kensington Palace where Diana had lived and later become the home of her son William
In Hyde Park we got some pictures of the geese by the Serpentine Lake
Some visiting tourists were not shy of appearing in our photographs
And our walk continued deep in Hyde Park.
On leaving Hyde Park at the Marble Arch end we paused at the Tyburn Stone, marking the spot where many people on both sides of the Reformation split in the Church gave up their lives for their faith
There was some time between our lunch at the Willow Walk Wetherspoons and the arrival of the relics and as they approached the evening was closing in but I got this nice photograph of the Cathedral resplendant in the light of the floodlights
The eventual arrival of the relic brought to an end a pleasant day's walking