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.


Saturday, 29 May 2021

Our Lady of the Oak at St Martin’s in Norwich


Today the virtual Marian pilgrimage reaches Norwich and the parochial shrine of Our Lady of the Oak in the churchyard of St Martin’s church in the northern part of the medieval city.  I rather doubt that it was coincidence that made Canon Stevenson chose a shrine based in an oak tree for May 29th, Oak Apple Day. If it was coincidental then it was certainly a fortuitous choice.

My article from last year about the church and its arboreal statue of the Virgin can be seen at Our Lady of the Oak at St Martins Norwich


Our Lady of the Oak, Norwich Pray for us


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