The penultimate shrine on this pilgrimage is now reached at King’s Lynn. The Chapel on the Red Mount is a rare survival of such a building and well worth visiting for that reason alone. It was built in 1483-5. One wonders if the redoubtable Margery Kempe visited it in an earlier form when she was living in her home town or before her seemingly impulsive decision to travel to Wilsnack in Brandenburg to the Eucharistic shrine there.
My accounts of the chapel and the tradition of devotion there can be seen at Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady on the Red Mount in King’s Lynn
As we are now within striking distance of Walsingham it is worth recalling that it was in the Catholic parish church in Kings Lynn that public devotion to Our Lady of Walsingham was first re-established in the 1890s.
May Our Lady on the Red Mount pray for The King and all the Royal Family and for us all
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