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.


Sunday, 16 May 2021

Our Lady of Pity in the Galilee at Durham


The Marian pilgrimage has now returned to the north and to the great cathedral at Durham. I posted last year about the devotional image of the Virgin which stood in the Galilee Chapel there in Our Lady of Pity in the Galilee at Durham

To that I would now add the link to Philippa Turner’s doctoral thesis about statues and devotion in the cathedrals at Durham and York which I referred to in connection with Our Lady of the Red Ark in York Minster and whose two volumes can be seen online here and here


Our Lady of Pity of Durham Pray for us


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