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.


Sunday, 11 May 2025

Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Coventry


Moving to the Midlands the pilgrimage now visit the shrine of Our Lady of Coventry in the cathedral destroyed in the 1540s, and which adjoined the sites of the Anglican cathedrals of St Michael - one a great late medieval parish church elevated to cathedral status in 1918 and tragically wrecked by bombing in 1940, and its modern replacement from 1962. The foundations of part of the cathedral can be seen in an archaeological park close to.the two more recent cathedrals and Holy Trinity Church. Despite the bombing Coventry still has a surprising number of medieval monuments.

The medieval statue was associated with Earl Leofric and his wife Godgifu, who bequeathed to it a chaplet of jewels. This may indicate that the late Anglo-Saxon statue survived as the cathedral was rebuilt around it by the Benedictine monks who served it until 1539.

My post from last year, together with other links, about the shrine can be found at Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Coventry


May Our Lady of Coventry pray for Pope Leo XIV



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