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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