Marian Pilgrimage- Our Lady of Mount Grace

The Carthusian house of Mount Grace is by far the best preserved example of a medieval Charterhouse in the British Isles, and still being in a rural setting is that much easier to envisage as it would have been in the fifteenth or early sixteenth century. Similarly the separate Lady Chapel on the hill above the priory, probably visited by the monks on their weekly walk, witnesses to medieval piety, to recusant fidelity and to modern revival. 

What has also b en shown by academic research is the exceptional part played by the community at Mount Grace in disseminating devotional literature in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.

 

Model of Mount Grace

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English Heritage has a history of the monastery at History of Mount Grace Priory 

My posts from previous years discussing Mount Grace  can be found through Marian pilgrimage - Our Lady of Guisborough,  Our Lady of Mount Grace, and Our Lady of Wensleydale

 

Above the site of the ruined Priory is the restored Lady Chapel, and close by is the Catholic parish church in Osmotherley. There is more about that at Osmotherley village - Our Lady of Mount Grace - Taking Stock

The Lady Chapel overlooking the monastery

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After the Elizabethan break with Rome the area around the North Yorkshire Moors was one with strong recusant sympathies. 

   

There is an excellent history of the Lady Chapel at History – The Lady Chapel

The Priory ruins with the hill on which the Lady Chapel stands in the background

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May Our Lady of Mount Grace intercede for us and our intentions 

Jesu mercy, Mary pray