THE P RTAL
May 2015
Page 20
The National Shrine of
Our Lady at Walsingham
Jackie Ottaway and Ronald Crane meet Mgr John Armitage,
Rector of the National Shrine
M
gr John Armitage has been a priest of the Brentwood Diocese
for 35 years. Born in Canning Town, his family have lived in the East
End of London for over 200 years. They worked principally on the river
or the docks or as merchant seamen; indeed, his father and grandfather
were buried at sea. His father, when