The Bishops' Conference of Scotland

❗BUS FULLY BOOKED🚌
🕊️ Christian Peace Vigil at Faslane - Saturday 2nd August, 10.30am

This Saturday, Christians from across traditions will gather at Faslane to mark the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with prayer, reflection, and a call for peace and nuclear disarmament.

✝️ Led by:
• Archbishop William Nolan, Archbishop of Glasgow and President of Justice & Peace Scotland
• Rt Rev. Rosie Frew, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
• Most Rev. Mark Strange, Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church

🤍Supported by:
• The Iona Community
• United Reformed Church Scotland
• Quakers in Scotland

🚌 PLEASE NOTE: All bus seats from Glasgow and Edinburgh are now fully booked. No boarding will be possible without a reservation.

📧 If you’ve booked a place but can no longer attend, please email [email protected] as soon as possible as there is a significant waiting list.

🚗 You can still attend by making your own way there - limited parking is available at Faslane South Gate (Maidstone Road).

🕊️Thank you to all who will turn out to play a part in this vital public witness for peace and to all who will be there with us in prayer and spirit.

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In WW2, Cork’s sister Kate McCarthy, worked in war hospitals across Europe, helping to smuggle Allied soldiers to safety. Her role in the French resistance during WW2 would prove vitally important to the allied war effort.

She would be caught by the Gestapo in 1941, and was tortured and sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp. In her daily task there, of having to make belts for paratroopers, she intentionally skipped every 5th stitch meaning when the parachute cord was pulled, the soldier would free fall to his death.
In this role, it’s estimated she killed up to 40 Nazis per day.

Miraculously, Sister Kate survived the camp and was on the last bus out of Ravensbruck after the camp was liberated. Kate was extremely malnourished and weighed little more than four stone. Sister Kate returned to Cork to recover and eventually became mother superior of Honan Home in Co Cork for elderly people and spent the rest of her life there.

She was awarded the Médaille de la Résistance by Charles de Gaulle and in 2014 there was a plaque unveiled in Paris in the Irish College and Sister Kate's name was added.

Sister Kate, you lived a life truly worth remembering and we salute you.

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