3-053-779 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Gathering of English pilgrims, pro-Cathedral Kensington, [in London], for the pilgrimage to Paray-le-Monial, 1873. 'Foreign and Colonial News: France...the pilgrimages to Paray-le-Monial are becoming a regular institution, and the clerical newspapers have recorded with unrepressed satisfaction the visit of the English pilgrims, under the guidance of the Duke of Norfolk and Lords Dormer and Arundell of Wardour, to the shrine of Marie Alacoque'. The Roman Catholic church of Our Lady of Victories opened in 1869, and for 34 years, until 1903, served as pro-cathedral (a parish church that temporarily serves as the cathedral or co-cathedral of a diocese) of the Archdiocese of Westminster. The building was destroyed by bombing in 1940. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.