Archbishop Rowan Williams makes historic visit to Catholic shrine

 17th September 2008

By Daily Mail Reporter
 17th September 2008

Trailblazer: Doctor Rowan Williams will become the first leader of the Church of England to make a pilgrimage to the Roman Catholic shrine of Lourdes

Doctor Rowan Williams is to become the first leader of the Church of England to make a pilgrimage to the Roman Catholic shrine of Lourdes.

The Archbishop of Canterbury flies to the shrine of Our Lady in the French Pyrenees on Monday, a week after Pope Benedict XVI made his own pilgrimage there.

He will be part of a historic pilgrimage of ten Church of England bishops, 60 Anglican priests and 400 Anglican lay worshippers. the rest