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, 3 May 2025

Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of the Red Ark in York Minster


Today the Pilgrimage travels north to York Minster and, as I demonstrated in my post last year, its multiplicity of images of the Virgin Mary. That post, with its various links, can be seen at Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of the Red Ark in York Minster

York has had three Cardinal Archbishops, but none are buried in the Minster. John Kempe was translated to Canterbury and is buried there, Christopher Bainbridge died - apparently murdered, in Rome and is buried in the chapel of the English College there, and his successor Thomas Wolsey is buried at the site of Leicester Abbey where he died.

In the thirteenth century the future Cardinal and Saint, Bonaventure, was appointed by the Pope to the see of York in 1265, but he resigned it the following year without ever taking possession of it. 

May Our Lady of the Red Ark in York Minster pray for the Papal Conclave and the election of a wise and holy Pope


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