Our Lady of Walsingham

Under the title of Our Lady of Walsingham ( Our Lady of Walsingham ), the Virgin Mary since the 11th century - with an interruption from the 16th to the 19th century - in Walsingham, Norfolk, and beyond throughout England and the English-speaking world worshiped.

Marian apparition and medieval pilgrimage

As founder of the pilgrimage is considered the Anglo-Saxon nobles Richeldis. You appeared in 1061 in a vision the Blessed Mother showed her the house of the Holy Family in Nazareth and asked them to recreate this house in Norfolk. The new shrine at Walsingham was to Canterbury, the second most important pilgrimage site in England especially for those who make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, to Santiago de Compostela or to Rome could not afford. 1150 an Augustinian Canons was founded next to the Holy House. In the High and Late Middle Ages many kings and queens of England and Scotland visited the place. 1513 was Erasmus of Rotterdam to Walsingham, leaving behind an impressive portrayal.

Destruction in the Reformation

After the independence of the English Church from Rome by Henry VIII - who was still himself come on pilgrimage to Walsingham - the Marian Shrine and the collegiate church were destroyed in 1538. The miraculous image of the Mother of God and other pieces of equipment were taken and burned to London.

Roman Catholic Slipper Chapel

After the 19th century in England Roman Catholic parishes and dioceses had arisen again, woke the memory of Walsingham. 1896 Charlotte Boyd bought a convert the Slipper Chapel. This was built in 1340 as the last chapel of a mile before Walsingham and converted since the Reformation and expire. 1897, Pope Leo XIII. the Catholic parish church in King's Lynn on the new Roman Catholic Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, and pilgrimages started again. On August 15, 1934, Cardinal Francis Bourne celebrated in the Slipper Chapel with 10,000 pilgrims, the first Mass and moved the Marian shrine here (52 ° 52 ' 52 "N, 0 ° 51' 12" O52.881110.85332 ). On August 15, 1954, created by Marcel Barbeau new image of the Virgin by the Apostolic legate Gerald Patrick O'Hara involving several thousand creditors was solemnly crowned. This statue was blessed in 1982 by Pope John Paul II at Wembley as part of his visit to England. In the same year, the Reconciliation Chapel ( Chapel of Reconciliation ), which holds 500 people and can be opened for larger celebrations of the pilgrimage site down (52 ° 52 ' 50 "N, 0 ° 51 ' 10" O52.880540.85265 ) was taken at the Slipper Chapel.

2004, the Community of Our Lady of Walsingham was founded wife, and in 2011, Pope Benedict XVI. the new Personal Ordinariate of converts from Anglicanism the name Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.

Anglican revival

In 1921, Alfred Hope Patten Vicar of Walsingham and campaigned for the restoration of the sanctuary. 1922 a statue of Our Lady of Walsingham set up in the Anglican church and in 1923 the first pilgrimage took place. 1931, the Marian shrine was built on the historic site as an Anglican place of pilgrimage again (52 ° 53 ' 40 "N, 0 ° 52' 26" O52.89450.87394 ).