The
theme of this cache is
THINK PINK.
It contains small pink swaps
including breast cancer badges etc. It has been placed in this
location in memory of my mum, who spent many happy hours at this
church before dying of breast cancer aged 68 in 2004.
Please keep the theme and swap
pink or breast cancer awareness items.
Hopefully this will be one of a
series of THINK PINK caches and please feel free to continue the
theme and pink some caches yourself!
A Little bit of History about
the Church
The number of Catholics was
growing and despite an enlargement of the original church in 1919,
this was not enough to accommodate the Catholic population in the
late 1950’s and early 1960’s, the number then having
developed to well over 5,000. Something had to be done and Fr.
Edmund FitzSimons, Parish Priest from
1952, after a great deal of careful thought and consideration, came
up with the then revolutionary design for a circular church with a
central altar, and having obtained approval from Cardinal
Heenan, the plan entrusting the work of
design to Jerzy Faczynski, went ahead. The Cardinal blessed the
foundation stone in 1962 and the new church was completed ready for
its consecration and dedication by Liverpool’s Archbishop
Beck in April 1964.
If you wish to know more go to:
http://www.leylandstmarys.org.uk