
Knight Street Walsingham

by Gordon James
Title
Knight Street Walsingham
Artist
Gordon James
Medium
Photograph - Photography Digital
Description
Walsingham is a civil parish in North Norfolk, England, famous for its religious shrines in honour of Mary, mother of Jesus. It also contains the ruins of two medieval monastic houses. Walsingham is 27 miles (43 km) northwest of Norwich.
Walsingham is a major centre of pilgrimage. In 1309, according to the Walsingham legend, an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman, Richeldis de Strutton, had a vision of the Virgin Mary in which she was instructed to build a replica of the house of the Holy Family in Nazareth in honour of the Annunciation. When it was built, the Holy House in Walsingham was panelled with wood and contained a wooden statue of an enthroned Virgin Mary with the child Jesus seated on her lap. Among its relics was a phial reputedly of the Virgin's milk. Walsingham became one of northern Europe's great places of pilgrimage and remained so through the remainder of the Middle Ages, with a revival in the 20th century.
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March 7th, 2023
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