Once I was a clever boy learning the arts of Oxford... is a quotation from the verses written by Bishop Richard Fleming (c.1385-1431) for his tomb in Lincoln Cathedral. Fleming, the founder of Lincoln College in Oxford, is the subject of my research for a D. Phil., and, like me, a son of the West Riding. I have remarked in the past that I have a deeply meaningful on-going relationship with a dead fifteenth century bishop... it was Fleming who, in effect, enabled me to come to Oxford and to learn its arts, and for that I am immensely grateful.


Friday 21 May 2021

Our Lady of the Four Tapers in St Albans Abbey


The designated shrine for today on Canon Stevenson’s virtual Marian pilgrimage is that of Our Lady of the Four Tapers in St Albans Abbey. I wrote last year about that statue and its various moves over time in the abbey church in Our Lady of the Four Tapers St Albans

There is a good photograph of the chapel with the four tapers as it was before recent renovations at here

The proposal to restore and relocate the shrine pedestal of St Amphibalus to the chapel which I mentioned last year has now been carried out and there is an illustrated account from BBC News at Cathedral features new carved head with facemask


Our Lady of the Four Tapers Pray for us


Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)