Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Windsor

The pilgrimage now moves back to the banks of the Thames and to St George’s Chapel at Windsor.

As Waterton correctly points out the full dedication of the Chapel as laid down by King Edward III is to the Blessed Virgin, St George and St Edward the Confessor. As we saw at Winchester yesterday in the Lady Chapel there was a late medieval tradition that saw St George as being the special knight of the Virgin Mary. Over the succeeding decades Royal benefactions included several statues of Our Lady in silver, as recorded from the reigns of King Richard II, King Henry IV, and King Henry VI. This material is quoted by Waterton as is an assault on an alabaster image of the Virgin in the retrochoir in the time of King Henry VIII.

Together with other major relics of St George, the Cross Gneth from Wales and the venerated bodies of John Schorne and King Henry VI the Chapel offered much for pilgrims in the last years before the break with Rome.

My earlier articles about the Marian devotion at  Windsor, and arguing that Eton College can also be seen as part of the cultus, can be accessed at Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Windsor

May Our Lady of Windsor, Our Lady of Eton, pray for The King and all the Royal Family and for us all