WelCom December 2024/January 2025
London’s Westminster Cathedral will be featured on a Christmas stamp from Britain’s Royal Mail.
The leading church of the Diocese of Westminster is the only Catholic representative of a series of five stamps featuring cathedrals in the United Kingdom. The other stamps will show the Anglican cathedrals in Edinburgh, Liverpool, Armagh, and Bangor.
‘I hope that seeing the image, people will understand a church is a place where God dwells and where that sense of God’s presence is intense, comforting and consoling,’ said Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster.
Westminster Cathedral is the largest Catholic church in England and Wales.
‘The presence of a church points directly to the birth of Jesus, because that is the way in which God comes into our world in flesh and blood. In order to honour and praise him, we create buildings of beauty – places of prayer – and Westminster Cathedral is an outstanding example of that,’ Cardinal Nichols said.
The cathedral was designed in a neo-Byzantine style by John Francis Bentley, a Catholic convert. He began working on the church in 1895, and it was completed in 1903.
Source: Crux