150 Churches in Paris and elsewhere

  Leeds RC Cathedral (St Anne’s cathedral)   Cheerleading for the martyrs   I used to live in Leeds in the 1980s, and I regularly change trains here deliberately ( on the way to visit my Mother) so I can have lunch with one of my best friends. I asked him to take me to a couple of churches and we started with the catholic cathedral (remember, people elsewhere, that most cathedrals in England, and all the ones which are over 500 years old,   are Anglican, not catholic). This cathedral, completed in 1904, has a fine statue which I think is St Anne   teaching Our Lady (her daughter), but I am not sure. There is also a Lampedusa cross, made of bits of wood from a shipwreck in which many refugees died on their way to try to start a new life in Europe. You will find a memorial to the Yorkshire martyrs, a bunch of guys and gals who were killed by Elizabeth the first because they were catholics. (In Bradford there is actually a school named after them, the Yor...