‘Came the Cardinal,” wrote our correspondent Marian Curd in 1954, describing the Archbishop of Westminster’s visit that December to crown the image of Our Lady at the Church of the Assumption on Warwick Street in the heart of London. A few weeks short of 70 years later, as the organist patiently rehearsed with the brass players, the open tabernacle on the gradine and a seventh candle behind the altar crucifix presaged the arrival of Cardinal Griffin’s successor, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, to celebrate a Mass of Thanksgiving for the 300th anniversary of Catholic worship on this historic site.