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.


Sunday, 7 May 2023

Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Willesden


The second of the shrines in what was once the rural periphery of medieval London and are now deep in suburbia is that of Our Lady of Willesden. This is one that has been restored in both the Anglican and Catholic churches that serve the neighbourhood, and is doubtless why one of the assistant bishops of the diocese of London is entitled as of Willesden.

My notes about it from last year also include something about the lost shrine at Crome Hill near Greenwich.

The article can be seen at Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Willesden

Our Lady of Willesden, Our Lady of Crome Hill pray for The King and for The Queen and for us all


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