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 24 August 2024

Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Caversham


The Shrine of Our Lady of Caversham lies on what is historically the Oxfordshire bank of the Thames on the opposite side of the river to Reading. A popular place of devotion for many centuries until the reformation it has been revived with skill and dignity in recent decades and is a prayerful chapel attached to the early twentieth century church. The original site, further to the east, appears to have been lost to  gravel works. 

My posts about it can be seen by going to Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Caversham

May Our Lady of Caversham pray for The King and all the Royal Family and for us all


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