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.


Monday, 15 May 2023

Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Abingdon


The Pilgrimage now makes a return visit to the Thames Valley and the Benedictine abbey at Abingdon. My posts from 2020 and 2021 about the cult of Our Lady there, and its twentieth century renewal in the town’s Catholic parish church, can be accessed at Our Lady of Abingdon

Our Lady of Abingdon pray for The King and The Queen and for us all.


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