In 1975 Fr Kerrigan announced in the parish newsletter that original drawings of the Stations of the Cross by ‘a talented young artist’, by the name of Kevin Geary, had been installed in the church. Fr Kerrigan added that they ‘may seem unusual to many, but Kevin Geary has brought his faith as well as his highly individual style of art into them’.
With the refurbishment of our church it was decided that the stations should be replaced, and while in Rome last year for a regular meeting of the Pontifical Biblical Commission Fr Adrian visited the liturgical firm Serpone just outside the Vatican. He took photos of a new set of stations, the work of Italian sculptor Nico Venzo, which were approved by all the participants in a Friday coffee morning in early May. The fifteen stations (the fourteen usual ones, and one for the Resurrection) were subsequently dispatched by courier from Naples, and they now hang in our church.
What happened to the old stations? They are now to be found in the Merici Hall at St John Payne School in Chelmsford.
