After visiting shrines on the western side of the Midlands and in the Welsh borderlands the Pilgrimage now returns to the south-east of England and to St Albans in Hertfordshire.
In what was the premier Benedictine monastery - a status it was granted by Nicholas Breakspeare, a local man who was the son of a man who entered monastic life as a widower, and who himself reigned as Pope Adrian IV from 1154 to 1159 - was the shrine of Our Lady of the Four Tapers. This has been reinstated in the former abbey which is now the Anglican diocesan cathedral .
The somewhat involved story of the Marian shrines in the medieval monastic church can be accessed through my article last year which is at Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of the Four Tapers at St Albans
May Our Lady of the Four Tapers at St Albans pray for Pope Leo XIV
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