The Pilgrimage now goes to Winchester Cathedral, a building which exudes the historic atmosphere of centuries in a way that is rich and rare and wonderful.
My post from previous years about the veneration of Our Lady in the Cathedral and in the neighbouring foundation of Winchester College can be accessed from Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Winchester
The exhibition gallery in the triforium of the south transept has an important collection of fragments of the decorative sculpture removed and broken up during the Edwardian reformation or the Civil War. These indicate the quality of what was there and the fanaticism of those committed to destruction.
A damaged fourteenth century statue of the Virgin and Child from Winchester Cathedral
Image: medart.pitt.edu.
May Our Lady of Winchester intercede for us and our intentions
Jesu mercy, Mary pray
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