Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Abingdon

The Pilgrimage now goes back to the Thames Valley and to the shrine of Our Lady of Abingdon in the great Benedictine abbey there.

My post, with its links to previous ones which include links to pieces on the restored medieval statue of the Virgin and Child now in the nineteenth century Catholic Church, can be seen at Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Abingdon

David Nash Ford’s Royal Berkshire History has an account of the abbey, including its other great focus of devotion, accross which was believed to include one of the nails from the Passion. This relic, known as the Black Cross features in the arms of St Edmund of Abingdon, and may have had its own chapel in the abbey forecourt. The account can be seen at RBH: History of Abingdon Abbey, Berkshire

A Facebook post from the Medieval & Tudor Period Buildings Group  has a quite detailed account of the revival of the abbey at the turn of the eleventh and twelfth centuries under the Italian born abbot Faricius. This can be seen at Abingdon Abbey near Oxford was probably founded in the late seventh century, but its great days started when it was re-founded by Bishop Aethelwold

The Friends of Abingdon Abbey Buildings Trust has an illustrated website which outlines the history of the abbey and discusses the few surviving buildings. This can be seen at Precious Heritage Site: the History of the Buildings - Abingdon Abbey Buildings

  

A reconstruction of Abingdon Abbey

Image: Abingdon Museum

 

Abingdon Museum Blog has an account of the suppression of the abbey which can be seen at The Dissolution of Abingdon Abbey 

The seal of 

Abingdon Abbey depicting the Virgin and Child

Image: VCH Berkshire

May Our Lady of Abingdon intercede for us and our intentions 

Jesu mercy, Mary pray