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.


Monday, 26 May 2025

Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Andover


The pilgrimage now returns to the south of England and heads to Hampshire. The first stop is at a shrine I added to the original itinerary, a long lost alabaster statue in the parish church at Andover. We know of this from an account of a Bohemian embassy which visited England in 1466. The author of the narrative was very greatly impressed by the beauty of the statue which the delegation saw on their way to Salisbury where they spent Easter and thence to the coast.

My article from last year, and the link to the previous years post, about this statue can be found at Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Andover


May Our Lady of Andover pray for Pope Leo XIV
 
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