St David’s Day Happy St David’s Day! When I was much younger, I always thought that it was odd that the Welsh should have an Old Testament King for their Patron saint. It somehow went together with my prejudice – long since abandoned – that the Welsh are rather different people, with their incomprehensible […]
Renewal One of the great advantages of living in London is that one can pop into the National Gallery to look at just one room, or even just one painting. Room 63 is one that I keep on going back to. The paintings in this room are all connected with the city of Venice […]
Mother Teresa Mother Teresa of Calcutta was in fact not from Calcutta but from Skopje the capital of what is now North Macedonia. Teresa and her family belonged to an Albanian Christian minority in that city. As a nun and missionary, she was sent to Calcutta in 1929, then still part of the British […]
Thank God for St Valentine! Not much is known of the Roman martyr St Valentine. He lived in the third century, he was a Bishop, and he was killed for his Christian faith, his day has always been kept on the 14th of February and his […]
We take the safeguarding and care of children and vulnerable adults very seriously at St Stephen’s.
