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, 20 May 2022

Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Tewkesbury


The shrine of Our Lady of Tewkesbury was another one missing from Canon Stevenson’s original list and which I added. If Evesham was a centre of Benedictine devotion to the vision granted to Eoves and his Bishop, and the cathedral in Worcester a centre of  diocesan devotion then the third amongst the great Benedictine foundations of the area, Tewkesbury Abbey, was a centre for aristocratic petition and prayer to Our Lady.

I wrote last year about the statue, noble piety, puritan desecration and a modern revival in Our Lady of Tewkesbury

Our Lady of Tewkesbury Pray for us


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