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.


Wednesday, 28 May 2025

Marian pilgrimage - Our Lady of Reading


The Pilgrimage remains on the banks of the Thames as it travelled west to Reading and the great Abbe founded in the Cluniac tradition by King Henry I. 

Tragically, very little survives of this one’s great building which was a focus for pilgrims to the relic collection and also the setting for numerous royal events in the middle ages.
Nonetheless, a visit to the ruins is a evocative experience given the rich history of the abbey.

My previous posts about the shrine can be accessed from Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Reading

May Our Lady of Reading pray for Pope Leo XIV
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