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.


Thursday, 20 May 2021

Our Lady of Worcester


Last year on this Marian pilgrimage I added to Canon Stevenson’s list at this point the shrine of Our Lady of Worcester. This statue in the cathedral was clearly a major place of devotion and its destruction much lamented as is recorded in L&P Henry VIII.

The next post will refer back to this shrine with a bequest from 1439, but that can wait until we move down the Severn to Tewkesbury,

My post from last year can be seen at Our Lady of Worcester

Our Lady of Worcester Pray for us


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