Peace Service at St Albans Cathedral

On Sunday, 10th August at 3pm about 40 members of local churches met at the St Albans Peace Obelisk, in the grounds of St Albans Cathedral, to remember the dropping of atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and to pray for nuclear disarmament.

The ecumenical prayer service was held at St Albans Peace Obelisk which was a gift given to the Cathedral by the people of Japan in 1982 in recognition of the stance taken by Dean Cuthbert Thicknesse, who had refused to allow the ringing of the cathedral bells to celebrate the end of World War Two in Japan and the Eastern front, in recognition of the terrible suffering which had been caused by the bombs.

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Archive report about Dean Thicknesse: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/78779769

(Mary Harber is a parishioner at Ss Alban and Stephen Parish, St Albans).