Student Cross: bringing the Passion to life

This year I completed my twenty-third Student Cross, the Holy Week and Easter pilgrimage to Walsingham. I am 26. My parents took my sisters and me on various family-orientated “legs” of the walk from when we were small. Groups start from London, Ely, Nottingham and Leicester and converge on Good Friday at Walsingham’s Slipper Chapel. I began walking the 115-mile Midland Leg about 10 years ago – the stage that starts in Leicester. And although I work now, as an English teacher in London, for me Easter is Student Cross and I would recommend the experience to anyone. The 20 or so pilgrims in Midland Leg this year – the group is named after the route they take – met on the Friday night before Holy Week, a mix of students, people in their twenties and a few