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.


Sunday, 25 May 2025

Marian pilgrimage - Our Lady of Guisborough, Our Lady of Mount Grace, and Our Lady of Wensleydale


The Pilgrimage now moves to the North Riding of Yorkshire and in this stage to three sites which could be managed by a single days’s driving in the modern world. For those who do not know this area it would be a wonderful discovery, and for those who do an opportunity to reacquaint oneself with it.

All three shrines are associated with monastic houses - Guisborough was a house of Augustinian Canons, Mount Grace a Carthusian foundation and, as I argued in my post last year, I think Our Lady of Wensleydale should be linked to the Cistercian abbey of Jervaulx.


May Our Lady of Guisborough, Our Lady of Mount Grace, and Our Lady of Wensleydale pray for Pope Leo XIV

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