YOUR report “Catholic procession is first in 500 years”

(June 18), on the procession by 800 Roman Catholics from the Guildhall to a mass in City Hall on the Feast of Corpus Christi, was accompanied by striking pictures. Surprisingly, however, it omitted to mention the presence in the procession of the Dean of Salisbury Cathedral, the Very Reverend June Osborne.

In so doing, it ignored part of the dramatic symbolism of the event. In Salisbury five centuries ago, Catholic and Protestant hostility was causing violence in the name of religion. In 2015, in an important gesture of ecumenical solidarity, a dignitary of the Church of England processed through the streets of the city alongside Roman Catholic priests.

PAMELA PERRY Salisbury