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.


Tuesday, 20 May 2025

Marian pilgrimage - Our Lady of Tewkesbury


The final destination on today’s session of the Pilgrimage is the abbey at Tewkesbury, a church for which I have a great love, both as a wonderful, powerful medieval building and as a church rich in historic associations and monuments. At Tewkesbury, in the best possible sense, you breathe the air of the medieval centuries.

Devotion to the Virgin at Tewkesbury appears to originate in the Anglo-Saxon period, long before the great Norman Benedictine Abbey was founded in the early twelfth century, and which housed the statue until the dissolution in 1539.

My article, with the appropriate links, from last year can be accessed at Marian pilgrimage - Our Lady of Tewkesbury


May Our Lady of Tewkesbury pray for Pope Leo XIV

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