During the half term holiday a group of GCSE and A level history students from Salesian College Farnborough visited Moscow and St Petersburg.

As well as exploring many sites of historical interest in Moscow, such as the Tsar Cannon (pictured above, and never used in anger), Mr Owens (headmaster) and Mr Crean (deputy head) took the students to the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. The Cathedral, which fell into decay during the communist era, was restored at the end of the last century. It is now run by the Salesians of Don Bosco, who have been in Moscow for over 25 years.

Some of the Farnborough students are pictured below, in front of a familiar statue of St John Bosco and St Dominic Savio, together with the Rector of the Salesian Community, Fr Henryk Boguszewski.

Fr Patrick Sherlock SDB