Jean Charles remembered at
Stockwell Station - one year on

Members of Jean Charles de Menezes' family and his friends gathered at Stockwell Station on Saturday, 22^nd  July, to pay tribute to his memory on the first anniversary of his death. Father José Osvaldo De Araujo, the principal Brazilizan Chaplain in London, opened the short but moving ceremony with a prayer and a reading from Matthew 5 – You are the salt of the earth … the light of the world. Jean Charles’s close associates laid flowers before the shrine that has been erected outside the station entrance. There followed a two-minute silence after which they descended to the platform close to where he died to pray in Portuguese

Jean Charles lived and died in the Southwark Diocese. He attended Mass at the Brazilian chaplaincy, Nossa Senhora da Aparecida. A message from Archbishop Kevin was read at the end of a Memorial Mass held in July 2005 at Westminster Cathedral, timed to coincide with Jean Charles’s funeral in his home town of Gonzaga in Minas Gerais, Brazil. In his message the Archbishop praised the contribution of the Brazilian people to Britain and to the Southwark diocese.
 

The scene at Stockwell Station during the Vigil

The shrine erected to Jean Charles de Menezes

Flowers laid by members of the family and friends

Father José Osvaldo De Araujo at prayer during the two-minute silence