JSF Committee Member Clare Slator and friend Dorothy Gray are intending to visit all 42 of England’s Anglican Cathedrals to publicise the Charity. Clare has visited Palestine many times and also met the students that JSF supports.

 

In November they made their first visit to Newcastle and Durham.

Newcastle Dean Lee, who has visited Jeel twice, conducted a guided tour of St Nicholas Cathedral. The only cathedral in England to be named after Santa Claus! The Cathedral, though small compared with Durham, is doing some amazing work with homeless people and their Café 16 is staffed by prison leavers, mentored by the Oswin Project. The cakes are baked in HMP Northumberland.

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Clare, Dorothy, and their dogs Kit and Scout, walked the Pilgrim route from Jesmond to the cathedral and back taking in the remains of St Mary’s Chapel which was one of the most important Pilgrim places in the 15th Century.

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Next stop Durham, for a walk through the town up to the stupendous cathedral, passing the Venerable Bede’s burial site on entering.

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(The café here had to be visited also, for research purposes only of course).

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St Cuthbert’s remains and St Oswald’s head are buried behind the altar in a very peaceful, prayerful chapel where Clare and Dorothy took time to light candles and pray........

A fitting way to finish their first day of Pilgrimage.