1 More than 900 visitors gathered recently in the Abbey Church in Downside to welcome the National Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady of Fatima (photo: Merille Ryder).
2 Parishioners at St Joseph’s, Bracknell, in Berkshire, present a cheque for £5,000 to the Medaille Trust as part of their Lenten alms.
3 Fr Shay Cullen, founder of the Preda Foundation in the Philippines, is presented with the AK Shalom Award for Human Rights at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt in Germany.
4 Staff and pupils at New Hall School in Chelmsford, Essex, celebrate the first anniversary of their Good Hope café by presenting a cheque for £1,900 to Barry and Margaret Mizen.
5 Year 10s and sixth-formers from Our Lady’s Convent High School in north London on pilgrimage at Aylesford Priory in Kent.
6 The Christian Brothers’ senior leadership team recently flew in from Rome for a board meeting held at St Ambrose College in Hale Barns, Cheshire.
7 The Catenian Association has donated £1,200 to the Amethyst Unit at the Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital in Grimsby, which treats cancer patients.
8 The staff and pupils of Our Lady & St Werburgh’s Catholic Primary School in Newcastle-under-Lyme have received an Apostolic Blessing marking the 50th anniversary of the school’s foundation.
9 Eight-year-old Rebecca Beeney was chosen to carry the Marian crown for the annual procession and crowning of the statue of the Blessed Virgin in the church garden of St Mary’s, Ryde, on the Isle of Wight.
10 Joshua Hallett and Oliver Morris, students at New Hall School in Essex, have been selected to play for the England U16 and U18 rugby teams respectively.
11 Princethorpe College in Rugby, Warwickshire, has welcomed its first German exchange visitors from Antoniuskolleg in Neunkirchen-Seelscheid.
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