BY Daniel Harkins | April 1 | 
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Clydebank students on eight-mile walking pilgrimage to Glasgow
STUDENTS at St Peter the Apostle High School in Clydebank followed the words of Pope Francis as they walked an almost eight-mile long pilgrimage to the Holy Door of Mercy at St Andrew’s Cathedral in Glasgow.
The Holy Father has called on Catholics across the world to make pilgrimages during this Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy. Catholics can obtain a plenary indulgence by passing through a designated Holy Door and the 40 young Catholics went above and beyond the call as they made their journey on foot from their school in Clydebank to the Glasgow city centre cathedral.
Close to £1000 was raised by the generous pupils for the Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (SCIAF) with the walk, with a total of £900 already counted and more expected to come in.
Along the way, one enterprising pupil commandeered an abandoned shopping trolley, and charged fellow pupils donations to SCIAF for the relief of loading their backpacks into the cart.
The young people were joined as they made their way along the Clyde by school chaplain Fr Pat Boyle and were met at the end of their journey by SCIAF’s schools officer Mark Booker.
Once they reached the cathedral, they were greeted by the Archbishop Philip Tartaglia of Glasgow and passed through the Holy Door.
Pic: Paul McSherry
—This story ran in full in the April 1 edition print of the SCO, available in parishes.
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