Tomorrow marks 85 years since St. Michael’s Cathedral was bombed during the Coventry Blitz. Here are some of the final images of what the inside of the Cathedral looked before being destroyed. The shell of the Cathedral remains as the Ruins standing side by side the New Cathedral that opened in 1962 to remind us of our human capacity both to destroy and reach out to our enemies in reconciliation. Tomorrow we honour the lives lost tragically on 14th November 1940 while reaffirming our city’s mess

The day after Coventry Cathedral was bombed on 14th November 1940, Provost Howard made a commitment not to seek revenge but to strive for forgiveness and ultimately reconciliation with those responsible, at the time seen to be very radical thinking as we were still at war with Germany. In this BBC Radio clip 6 weeks after the Blitz, Provost Howard gave a message on Christmas Day on building a kinder, more Christ-like world, a message that that Cathedral holds close to this day. 🎧 BBC recording,