Our Lady of Walsingham, Oct 15

The Walsingham Story

Retold by the Rt. Rev’d Archimandrite Daniel Keller

The Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham is the most renowned sanctuary of the Mother of God in the whole of the British Isles.
Walsingham itself is a village in a remote part of East Anglia some 125 miles from London.  Here in the year 1061, (when England was still considered part of the One Orthodox Catholic Church) Richeldis, Lady of the Manor, received a vision in the fields near her home.  The Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to her and...

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Collect:

O God, who in the Blessed Virgin Mary didst make a fit dwelling place for thy Son, grant we beseech thee, that we who honor her shrine at Walsingham may also become temples of Thy Holy Ghost, through Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with Thee, and the same Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen.