On the feast day of St Polycarp, the first Saturday in the Great Fast, pilgrims from the Liverpool Orthodox Student Society undertook a pilgrimage to the Holy Island of Lindesfarne—one of the most important sites in the history of Orthodoxy in the British Isles in the first millennium—where, amongst the great host of Orthodox Saints associated with that sacred place, the faithful venerated St Aidan, the luminary Archpastor of the Church.
During the pilgrimage, the Divine Liturgy was served by Priest Alban Illingworth, of the Mission of St John the Theologian in Durham.
O ye saints of Holy Island, pray to God for us!
