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, 21 April 2026

More about Papal Agnus Deis


Following on from my last post here are two more articles from the New Liturgical Movement about the rite of blessing of these wax medallions. 

The first is about the rite as used in recent centuries, and the second an earlier form from the late fifteenth century. How far back the latter form dates is not clear.


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