May Marian Pilgrimage

The past three years I have posted daily posts in May following a pilgrimage route around many of the Marian shrines of medieval England. The list has grown somewhat as I have included some not on the original itinerary and augmented my accounts of the shrines.

This originally was something I created to mark the 2020 rededication of England as Our Lady’s Dowry, but it has not had a particular intention other than that. This year however I think it can have a specific intention, to pray for The King and The Queen, their coronation and reign. Where I can I will try to point to appropriate connections between the churches and the Crown.

This year I wil therefore repost the daily links from last year, and, if necessary, add additional historical information. or reflections. Because of other likely subjects to comment upon - notably around the Coronation - I was going to post them in weekly groups starting on May 1st, and then on the Sundays of the following weeks. However I have decided I will stick to my traditional way - how typical I hear readers say - and post them on the due day.

I have commented in past years that the itinerary is distinctly curious, a camino which crosses, recrosses and doubles back on itself, beginning symbolically at Glastonbury and ending, equally symbolically, at Walsingham. It is not a route to be attempted by car or public transport ….