| Description | This photograph shows the altar area, framed within a large arch, and first few pews of a church, name and location unknown but taken by an Edinburgh photographer; the altar area is filled with clergy and altar boys and Cardinal Gray can be seen on the left; the pews are filled with clergy and parishioners; Cardinal Gray was born in Leith, Edinburgh in 1910 and was ordained to the priesthood on 15th June 1935; he was appointed as Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh in 1951, a position which he held until his retirement in 1985, a period of 34 years; in 1969, he became the first resident Scottish Cardinal in Scotland since the Reformation; he died in Edinburgh on 19th July 1993, aged 82; full details of Cardinal Gray's life can be found on pp 430 to 436 of The Catholic Directory for Scotland for 1994. |