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.


Tuesday 20 August 2024

Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Lincoln


Some writers have claimed that the city of Lincoln was the greatest centre of Marian devotion in medieval England. That claim might be difficult to substantiate, but dominated by the cathedral dedicated in honour of the Virgin, with the archway of the Stonebow, the seat of civic government, flanked by statues of the Virgin and St Gabriel at the Annunciation and with her emblematic fleur de lys overlaying the cross of St George as its city arms it is certainly an arguable case. 

The great statue of the medieval cathedral and its recent recreation are discussed in articles accessed from Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Lincoln


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


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