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St Albans
This page has not been updated since June 2014.
St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK
A founding member of the Green Pilgrimage Network
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The Albans annual procession with carnival puppets |
St Albans is one of nine cities and 22 different organisations and faiths that joined as founding members of the Green Pilgrimage Network, launched at Assisi, Italy, during ARC's Sacred Land Celebration, October 31-Nov 2, 2011. The founder members from St Albans are:
St Albans Cathedral, Church of England
The City and District of St Albans
The City of St Albans was given its name by Alban who lived in the Roman town of Verulamium, around the end of the third century.
Alban was the first Christian martyr in Great Britain, dying at the hands of the Romans. The place where he was buried became a place of worship and pilgrimage and is the oldest surviving place of Christian worship in England.
The town of St Albans grew up around the church as a place of hospitality.
Green Pilgrimage Actions
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HRH Princess Michael of Kent; The Hon Mrs Sara Morrison, VP Emeritus of WWF Int; Councillor Beric Read, St Albans City Council; Rev Dr Kevin Walton, St Albans Cathedral, at the launch of the Green Pilgrimage Network in Assisi. |
In joining the Green Pilgrimage Network, St Albans has committed itself to becoming an outstanding place of welcome and hospitality as a Green Pilgrim City.
It plans to explore putting solar panels on the south side of the Cathedral
It’s launched a competition to calculate the number of Roman bricks used to build the cathedral as an example of early recycling
It plans to introduce a new environmental trail for school groups
And to build up a new network of pilgrim ways as well as footpaths and cycle ways
And it will encourage local hotels, restaurants and tourist attractions to sign up as Green Pilgrimage City participants.
Useful links
St Albans - Christian Green Pilgrimage Theology Statement
Visit the St Albans Cathedral website here
Download the full Green Pilgrimage Network handbook here
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Christian Faith Statement
A formal statement of Christian beliefs about creation and ecology: "Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God." |
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May 17, 2012:
ARC holds a sustainable agriculture workshop in Kenya
Kenya has lost 50% of its forest cover in the last 30 years. That was the alarming statistic heard by faith leaders yesterday at a workshop in sustainable agriculture and creation stewardship organised by ARC in Kijabe, Kenya, this week.
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Green pilgrimage network members
The vision is of pilgrims on all continents and the pilgrim cities that receive them, leaving a positive footprint on the Earth |
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