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.


Friday, 30 May 2025

Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of the Oak at St Martin’s in Norwich


The pilgrimage now goes into Norwich and to a small parish north of the river Wensum - an area little visited I suspect by the average modern visitor to this historic city. Time has not been kind to St Martin’s church, and the statue of Our Lady, which like Our Lady of Islington appears to have been outside in the churchyard is long gone.

My previous pieces about this little known, but once popular, shrine - and especially that from 2020 - can be seen by going to Our Lady of the Oak at St Martin’s in Norwich


May Our Lady of the Oak at St Martin’s pray for Pope Leo XIV

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