The pilgrimage
Why this road exists
To pray for the conversion of a country, and for Christian unity, which is not a slogan at Walsingham — it is geography.
How the days are spent
The Catholic shrine at the slipper chapel is small. Good.
Walsingham
Our Lady of Walsingham
England’s Nazareth. A noblewoman’s vision in 1061, a holy house, destruction under Henry VIII, and a return. The slipper chapel, the mile, the Anglican and Catholic shrines living in a Norfolk village. You go because Mary had a home in England before the fracture, and still does.
Walsingham, NorfolkFeast 24 September
The signs of this place
The apparition, the Gospel sign, the body, the image — whatever this place is known for, told as a file of its own.
