ONE of the world’s most famous clergymen delighted staff at an Oxford shop when he popped in to bless the organisation.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town and a leading anti-apartheid campaigner, was in the city to give a talk at the Sheldonian Theatre for Oxford University’s Kellogg College.
When directors at the Windmill Fairtrade shop in Headington, which opened earlier this year, heard he would be in the city, they invited him to visit, little expecting he would take them up on the offer.
But the archbishop promised to come and on Tuesday spent about 45 minutes with staff, customers and children from St Andrew’s Primary School, Headington. They are about to start a project on South Africa.
Elizabeth Whitwick, one of the directors, said: “He wasn’t just impressive, he was magical, everything you have ever thought this man was, plus.”
Archbishop Tutu gave high fives to some of the children, including Peter Vickers, nine before blessing the shop.
Archbishop Tutu gave the 2010 Bynum Tudor Lecture at the Sheldonian on Monday.
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