Sixty years ago today, an event took place a few yards away from the Beda College which changed the Church for ever. Across the road, in the Abbot's Parlour at the Basilica of San Paolo, Pope John XXIII made the announcement that he was calling an Ecumenical Council of the Church - what was to become the Second Vatican Council. As we celebrate the Feast of the Conversion of St Paul today, we remember this historic event which took place geographically so close to us 60 years ago.