12 June 2014, The Tablet

Sentimental journey


 
St Mary’s, Hampstead, north London, was founded by a priest from Normandy in northern France so it was fitting that last weekend that a parishioner couple travelled to the scene of the D-Day landings 70 years ago. Richard and Victoria Nichols made the journey in a Willys Jeep, pictured, which had been used in Normandy in June 1944, and before they departed it was blessed by Mgr Phelim Rowland, the parish priest and a former vicar general of the army, also pictured. The visit was particula
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