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 Worcester


The second of the Benedictine houses with a pilgrimage to Our Lady in the Severn-Avon area was in the Cathedral Priory at Worcester. Its destruction in the late 1530s is well documented and gives interesting insights into these shrines and their popular appeal. My account of it can be seen at Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Worcester

Near the site of the shrine and those of the two late Anglo-Saxon great Worcester episcopal saints, Oswald and Wulfstan, is the tomb of King John with its striking effigy and the chantry and tomb of Prince Arthur, the eldest son of King Henry VII and the first husband of Catherine of Aragon.

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


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