Becket Week concludes with a mass and a Hungarian concert in Canterbury

Bishop László Kiss-Rigó of Szeged-Csanád, Rev. Canon John O’Toole, National Ecumenical Officer and Secretary for Dialogue and Unity at the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, and Father Valentine Erhahon of Saint Thomas Roman Catholic Church concelebrated the Sunday Mass in Canterbury Cathedral. The Very Rev. Robert Willis, Dean of Canterbury was also in attendance.
The Mass in honour of Saint Thomas Becket’s relic from Esztergom was attended by István Mikola, Minister of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Etelka Romanek, Mayor of Esztergom and Ambassador Péter Szabadhegy.
 
The Joyful Company of Singers, conducted by Peter Broadbent, sang Hungarian pieces – Missa Brevis by Mátyás Seiber, Pange Lingua and Ave Verum by György Orbán – during the mass, after which they gave a free concert of Hungarian folk songs adapted by Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály and Ferenc Farkas in the Green Court Deanery of Canterbury Cathedral.