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.


Thursday, 29 May 2025

Marian pilgrimage - Our Lady of Winfarthing and Our Lady of Weston


The pilgrimage now returns, for the last time, to Wast Anglia and to two little-known villages, Winfarthing in Norfolk and Weston in Suffolk - the latter being one I added last year after perusing the scholarly pages of Edmund Waterton.

My article from last year discusses both devotions, and it has links to previous accounts of Winfarthing, and as I wrote in one, reads like something out of M.R.James. As I wrote in my first article about the shrine at Winfarthing the curious traditions and archaeological finds in the village do invite a more detailed investigation of its history. 


May Our Lady of Winfarthing and Our Lady of Weston pray for Pope Leo XIV

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