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REGINA: A procession across busy Warrington!
FR DE MALLERAY: Yes. On arrival at St Alban’s, the mother parish of Warrington, Fr Stewart handed the monstrance to the local diocesan Dean, Canon Christopher Cunningham, who had just celebrated his fiftieth anniversary of ordination (and acted as Deacon of Honour at the ordination the day before). Canon Cunningham was among the new priests ordained in English at the Liverpool metropolitan cathedral in 1967. He gave the final Benediction after the Corpus Christi procession. It was a beautiful way of expressing continuity in the priesthood, over half a century, ad majorem Dei gloriam.