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Day 1 St Mary’s Brownedge to St Peter’s Stonyhurst 15miles: Mark arrives at Stonyhurst College and enters St Peter’s church for a prayer and and to get his stamp on his Pilgrim’s passport.
Day 2 Stonyhurst to St Albans Blackburn 10miles: After Mass at 8am Mark left Stonyhurst with his son Joe and crossed the Ribble valley to St Albans church Blackburn, where he got the 3rd stamp on his Jubilee passport.
Days 3 and 4 Leaving Blackburn, St Mary’s Burnley was too far for one day’s walk. After stopping at Hapton on day 3, Mark then continued last Saturday to St Mary’s Burnley where he arrived in time for Mass at 9.30am. He had his passport stamped for his 4th Jubilee church before walking on to Rawtenstall. Day 5 will take him to the Schoenstatt shrine Kearsley.
St Mary’s church Burnley Mark’s 4th church just 2 more to go!
Mark arriving in Rawtenstall
The Final Day walking through Kearsley into Manchester:
Mark crossing the river Irwell on the way into Manchester
Arriving at the Schoenstatt chapel Kearsley the 4th Jubilee church
Getting closer to the ever changing Manchester city centre skyline
St Mary’s church better known as the “Hidden Gem” The 5th and final Jubilee church.
A final visit for a prayer and Mark’s passport stamp having completed over 70miles visiting the 5 Jubilee Churches
Congratulations Mark. Thankyou & Well Done from all at the RGT
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This summer, Mark, Michael and fellow trustees of the Rwanda Group Trust will take part in the spirit of Jubilee Year 2025, by making a pilgrimage walk to visit in turn the 6 ‘Designated Churches’ specially appointed by Bishop John within the RC Diocese of Salford.
On their journey of nearly 70 miles, they plan to collect special stamps on their ‘pilgrim passports’ at each of the 6 churches to be visited, which include: (1) St Mary’s, Bamber Bridge; (2) St Peter’s, Stonyhurst; (3) St Alban’s, Blackburn; (4) St Mary’s, Burnley; (5) Schoenstatt Shrine, Kearsley; (6) St Mary’s “The Hidden Gem”, Manchester.
The Rwanda Group Trust (or ‘RGT’) is a small Preston-based charity registered charity, founded by Joe Bamber who was an inspirational local schoolteacher and whose family continue to actively support RGT.
RGT helps to alleviate poverty in the areas of health, education, food and shelter, through a network of 4 local groups in Rwanda with whom we maintain regular contact.
In the near future, RGT hopes to be able to fund a new project, which will help to support poor disabled children at a residential school by raising pigs and chickens.
Further information on the Jubilee and Salford Diocese is available here: https://dioceseofsalford.org.uk/news/jubilee-2025/designated-churches/
and on RGT itself here: https://rwandagrouptrust.org/about/
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