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.


Thursday, 22 May 2025

Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Bradstow at Broadstairs


Further along the coast on the Isle of Thanet was the coastal shrine of Our Lady of Bradstow at Broadstairs. Thanet remained an island until the early modern era, and still today the landscape shows very clearly what was once the course of the channel separating it from the rest of Kent. There is more about that from Wikipedia at Isle of Thanet


My article, together with various links, from last year can be viewed at Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Bradstow at Broadstairs


May Our Lady of Bradstow pray for Pope Leo XIV

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