Churchgoers will retrace the Queen's footsteps during her 2012 visit to the County Fermanagh town
Queen Elizabeth II walked from a Protestant church to a Catholic Church in Enniskillen in 2012
It was the first time she had stepped inside a Catholic Church on the island of Ireland and it came a year after herThose few short steps during the Queen's Diamond Jubilee were seen as a giant stride towards reconciliation in a town that had been devastated by the 1987 Remembrance Day bomb.
Dean Hall added: "She didn't have to say words, just her actions spoke louder than words by actually crossing the street."The following year, the two churchmen were invited to Buckingham Palace where the Queen was keen to hear what progress had been made.A painting of the Queen's cross-community visit, by artist Hector McDonnell, was unveiled a year later in 2013
"I remember she asked us that very bold question, she looked over the glasses and she asked us, 'What are you doing to further reconciliation work in Enniskillen?'"
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