The Pilgrimage now makes its way southwards to Westminster, to the Abbey and to two Marian shrines, those of Our Lady at the North Door in the now-destroyed Galilee attached to the North Transept, and that of Our Lady of Pew opening off the north ambulatory. This appears to have had a second shrine to Our Lady of Pew within the adjacent Palace.
My blog post from last year about these linked shrines can be seen at Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady at the North Door and Our Lady of Pew in Westminster Abbey
In Westminster Abbey is the tomb of Cardinal Langham O.S.B., a monk of the abbey from its estates in Rutland, who rose to be Prior, Abbot, Bishop of Ely, Lord Treasurer and Lord Chancellor and finally Archbishop of Canterbury. In 1368 he was made a Cardinal. At the that time Cardinals were virtually always based at the Curia, so, like his Dominican predecessor Robert Kilwardby a century earlier, he resigned Canterbury and moved to Avignon. He presumably participated in the Conclave of 1370. Four years later there was the possibility of his return to Canterbury but that did not happen. He died in Avignon in 1376, and was reburied at Westminster in 1379. His life is set out in more detail by Wikipedia at Simon Langham and by Westminster Abbey at Simon & Thomas Langham
May Our Lady at the North Door and Our Lady of Pew pray for the Papal Conclave and for the election of a wise and holy Pope
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