Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Arundel

This is a new addition to the Pilgrimage and draws upon the EWTN report on the installation of a new statue of our Lady of Walsingham in the chapel at Arundel Castle which I shared a couple of months 

back. I have edited and augmented their account.

 

Prior to the Reformation, the town of Arundel possessed no fewer than three important shrines dedicated to Our Lady. The shrine of Our Lady of Arundel was located in a chapel near the site of the present, nineteenth century, cathedral.

Thomas, Earl of Arundel, a great friend of King Henry V having been invalided home from the siege of Harfleur, in his will dated October 10th 1415, willed that his executors should build at the Mary Gate in Arundel a chapel in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary.This was done a short distance from the Mary Gate. 

Tomb effigies of Thomas Earl of Arundel, 1381-1415, and his wife Beatrice of Portugal in the FitzAlan chapel at Arundel

Image: Flickr - Church Explorer

 Another chapel of Our Lady stood over the Mary Gate which led from the castle into the park. This had been  built at the close of the thirteenth century. Our Lady was honoured here under the title Our Lady of the Gate.

The Shrine of Our Lady of Calceto was in the Augustinian Priory Church overlooking what is now the Causeway (Calceto).

May Our Lady of Arundel intercede for us and our intentions 

Jesu mercy, Mary pray