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.


Saturday, 24 May 2025

Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Lincoln


The main object of Marian pilgrims in the great cathedral under her patronage in Lincoln was a bejewelled statue of the Virgin and Child by the High Altar, and close to the other shrines in the mother church of a diocese that extended from the Humber south to the Thames.

My previous posts about the shrine can be accessed from the one I composed last year at 

Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Lincoln


May Our Lady of Lincoln pray for Pope Leo XIV


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