DURING the course of next week. Cardinal Griffin will visit both France and Holland.
Accompanied by Mgr. Warlock, he will fly to France on Monday to lead the National Pilgrimage to Lourdes. The pilgrimage is being organised by the Society of Our Lady of Lourdes.
Cardinal Griffin will preside at Pontifical Mass in the Basilica on Ascension Day, May 14.
Then he will leave Lourdes late on the evening of Friday. May 15, and travel by train to Paris. whence he will fly to Amsterdam the following day.
In the Netherlands he will take part in the celebrations at Utrecht and Nijmegen from May 16 to 18 in connection with the centenary of the restoration of the country's Ilierarchy. The Cardinal will return to England on Tuesday, May 19.