Taunton Team Back from Pilgrimage

A group of tired but elated pilgrims has returned home to Taunton following a special seven-day pilgrimage to Lourdes. The group celebrated fifty golden years of the ‘HCPT - The Pilgrimage Trust’ – a charity which takes young children with disabilities on a week’s wonderful journey to the shrine of Our Lady.

This year the West-based group was twenty-seven strong and included ten children. They were accompanied by three students from St Peters Catholic High School in Gloucester.

Doug Lowe, a parishioner at St Teresa’s Catholic Church in Taunton, was one the organisers of the visit. He said:

“It was wonderful; the children really enjoyed themselves especially visiting the famous Grotto.”

The Taunton pilgrims bumped in to a famous fellow pilgrim when they met the Scottish Cardinal, Keith O’Brien. Cardinal O’Brien was asked to give a blessing to the children, which he did and stayed for a while to chat. Doug added:

“It was great to meet Cardinal O’Brien. He thought our Albright special pilgrimage sweatshirts were great and made us stand out with the two large hands on the back.”
Useful URL : http://www.hcpt.org.uk