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, 12 May 2025

Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Grace at Ipswich

 
The Pilgrimage moves back to East Anglia and to the Shrine of Our Lady at Ipswich. This was one of the most important and popular shrines of Our Lady in mediaeval England, and is another one specifically dedicated to her as Our Lady of Grace.

My post from last year has several links in it to the history of the devotion, which was doubtless familiar to the most famous son of late mediaeval Ipswich, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, as he gre up before moving to Oxford as a promising scholar at Magdalen College.


May Our Lady of Grace at Ipswich pray for Pope Leo XIV

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