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, 25 March 2026

Our Lady of Walsingham enthroned at Arundel Castle


Today being the Feast of the Annunciation seems a good occasion on which to share a post from the British website of EWTN about the creation and enthronement in the private chapel at Arundel Castle, the ancestral home of the Fitzalan-Howard family, Dukes of Norfolk and Earls of Arundel and premier Catholic family of the realm, of a statue of Our Lady of Walsingham.

Walsingham itself is, of course in the county of Norfolk, and the article cites the verses on the Wracks of Walsingham, attributed to St Philip Howard, in whom the Howards and Fitzalans were united, lamenting the loss of the shrine, and of devotion, at Walsingham.

The illustrated article can be seen at Our Lady of Walsingham in Arundel Castle


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