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.


Saturday, 20 May 2023

Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Tewkesbury


The wonderful abbey church at Tewkesbury is the next shrine on the Pilgrimage route. My linked posts about the devotion to Our Lady there can be accessed at Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Tewkesbury

Like Worcester Cathedral Tewkesbury Abbey has the tomb of a Prince of Wales. This is Edward, the son of King Henry VI and Queen Margaret of Anjou, who was killed at the battle of Tewkesbury in 1471 at the age of seventeen

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


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