Fr. Finigan's Day Trip to Walsingham

Fr. Finigan reports on his day trip to the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham on Wednesday over at The Hermeneutic of Continuity. He was there to say Mass for members of the Latin Mass Society who were participating in a pilgrimage to the medieval shrine.


UPDATE
Of particular interest in Fr. Finigan's post is this bit:

Don't forget (never forget!) what happened to the original statue of Our Lady of Walsingham. It was burnt at Chelsea under the orders of Thomas Cromwell, along with statues from shrines all over the country. The ashes were thrown into the Thames. There was a proposal reported (Catholic Action UK: Statue of Our Lady in Chelsea?) to erect a sculpture in reparation on Chelsea embankment. It would depict the stripping of the monasteries on one side, the burning of the statues on the other, with Our Lady in the middle, with her children gathered beneath, depicting her as Mary, Mother of all mankind. (Information about the sculpture at Art and Reconciliation.)

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