...celebrated in churches around the world for the first time. Lunchtime Mass at Precious Blood Church, London Bridge, where I met an American friend who joined my group of Catholic History Walkers on a tour of St George's Cathedral, Southwark. The stained glass of St John Paul there is a fine one, and shows him giving the Sacrament of the Sick in the Cathedral on his visit to Britain in 1982. I remember it so well: the cathedral filled not with pews but with people in their beds and chairs, with blessings and anointings as the H. Father and Cardinal Hume moved among them...the stained glass brings it all back, right down to the details of the Holy Father's robes, and the bright green blankets on the beds - and Christ above, shown healing the sick...
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