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, 19 May 2025

Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Kersey


Last year I added another shrine to the itinerary by including the statue of Our Lady of Pity in the parish church at Kersey in Suffolk. This was a Paris shrine with an appeal that extended over there rather wider area..

My article from last year can be seen at Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Kersey

After I posted that I was contacted by my friend Simon Cotton, who has a great knowledge of the churches of East Anglia, and who drew my attention to an article he had had published in the April 2021 edition of New Directions  This is about the shrine at Kersey, its physical remains in the south aIsle of the church, and which also looks at other local parish shrines in the region during the later medieval period. Not only is it handsomely illustrated but he included the text of a 1464 grant of an indulgence by Pope Pius II to the shrine. 

His article ‘Lost Shrines of Suffolk’ can be found by going to the website of New Directions and searching for the April 2021 issue, where the article is on pp 14-16

May Our Lady of Kersey pray for Pope Leo XIV

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