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.


Wednesday, 14 August 2024

Back on Pilgrimage


After writing yesterday about resuming blogging I did some research for the Marian Pilgrimage and think that I will now resume it, complete with the additional shrines. I can then, hopefully, revise the whole itinerary and articles by next May.

So tomorrow, being Our Lady’s Assumption, seems an appropriate day to recommence, and we should end round about Our Lady’s Nativity in September. The Welsh and Scottish shrines - on which the information is a bit sparse - may or may not get covered. If I get the various shrines written up now it might give  readers ideas for next year’s holidays…

So see you tomorrow in Bury St Edmunds and then a further foray into the Suffolk countryside….


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Fr. David Evans said...

Well i am glad you are back and alive

14 August 2024 at 18:43

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