BY Liz Leydon | September 18 | 0 COMMENTS print
Crowds gather at Hyde Park
Organsiers are estimating that around 80,000 people are congregating in central London for the Hyde Park prayer vigil. The event is shaping up to be the largest public gathering of this Papal visit. (Pic: PA Photo)
The vigil will be compered by TV presenter Carol Vorderman and writer Frank Cottrell-Boyce and teenage Britain’s Got Talent contestant Liam McNally will sing.
Representatives from every Catholic diocese in England, Scotland and Wales will take part in a procession to Hyde Park where the Holy Father will arrive in the Popemobile.
A rival procession of around 5,000 people opposed to the Pope’s visit has made its way from Hyde Park to Downing Street but participant are said to be drifting away.