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A brief history of The Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham
Walsingham is a village in Norfolk, England, where by tradition a Saxon noblewoman, the Lady Richeldis de Faverches, founded a site of devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1061. Richeldis received three visions from Mary to build a replica of the House of Annunciation in Nazareth, called the Holy House, which was later enclosed within a Priory and placed under the protection of Augustinian Canons by the mid 12th century. The Priory was a thriving place of pilgrimage until Henry VIII’s order for the destruction of monasteries in 1538.
Evensong returns to St. Barnabas with a fanfare!
Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee was celebrated with a Festal Solemn Evensong service.
BY L.K. O’CONNOR
Reprinted from the September 2022 issue of Crosstalk, the newspaper of the Anglican Diocese of Ottawa