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.


Wednesday, 24 May 2023

Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Lincoln


The Pilgrimage now makes its way to Lincoln Cathedral, dedicated to St Mary the Virgin, and to the statue which was in the medieval period a focus of devotion and to its recent replacement. 

My post from last year about it has links to a fairly lengthy account I wrote in 2020 about the statue. This can all be accessed at Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Lincoln

Lincoln Cathedral holds part of the remains of Queen Eleanor of Castile, the first wife of King Edward I and the body of Katherine Swynford, the third wife of John of Gaunt, the parents of the Beauforts.

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


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