Middlesbrough: Bishop ferries pilgrims at Mount Grace

Bishop Terry Drainey, of Middlesbrough, turned chauffeur to ferry elderly pilgrims up a steep track to the Lady Chapel at Mount Grace, Osmotherley, North Yorkshire, on Sunday 13th August.

He augmented the regular service of two mini-coaches from Ampleforth abbey for the half-mile trip.

The bishop, who also celebrated Mass and preached, gave pilgrims a lift up and down several times.

In his homily he thanked the Scope and Eldon families of local land-owners for allowing land to be used for the chapel. He said the 5th Earl of Eldon, who died in January, had great devotion to the Virgin Mary - the feast of her assumption into heaven was marked by the 650 pilgrims.

Read more about the Lady Chapel here: www.ladychapel.org.uk/history/