Oxford medievalist; pilgrimage enthusiast and researcher. Saints, relics, shrines, pilgrims. Member of @OxfordHistory and Tutor @OxLifelongLearn
Oxford and Wiltshire
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My article, "Journey or Destination? Rethinking Pilgrimage in the Western Tradition" is now online (Open Access).
Delighted it has been chosen for the front cover of the @Religions_MDPI Special Issue, "Pilgrimage and Religious Mobilization in the World"!
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Appropriately for the @AugustineCamino, behind Andrew is the 'Baptism Fresco' by Sergeil Fyodorov (2004) showing St Augustine baptising King Ethelbert in 597.
Blessing at Rochester Cathedral and our Pilgrim Leader, Andrew Kelly, stamping our Pilgrim Passports.
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And here is Queen Bertha herself: well, a wooden sculpture by the artist Mother Concordia Scott at Minster Abbey!
Another from Canterbury: St Martin's Church, the oldest church in continuous use in England. Founded by King Æthelberht's queen, Bertha, in the 6th century and used by Augustine as his mission church on arrival in England.
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More from Rochester Cathedral on the @AugustineCamino: the Pilgrim Steps that once led to the medieval shrine of St William of Perth, and the saint's modern shrine. William was a pilgrim en route to the Holy Land when murdered near Rochester in 1201.
Blessing at Rochester Cathedral and our Pilgrim Leader, Andrew Kelly, stamping our Pilgrim Passports.
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Santiago brings forward the opening of the Holy Door and prepares changes before the arrival of the Holy Year 2027
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The church also has some splendid medieval wall paintings!
Another church on our Kent pilgrimage trail: St Mary's, Newington, with its shrine-tomb of Robert de Bouser. Robert is said to have been a 12th-century pilgrim and venerated as a saint here in the late Middle Ages.
Another pilgrimage connection: pilgrims going to Canterbury stopped at the cross at Newington where miracles were said to occur.
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For #FontsonFriday: 12th-century Norman tub font at St Martin's made of Caen stone.
Another from Canterbury: St Martin's Church, the oldest church in continuous use in England. Founded by King Æthelberht's queen, Bertha, in the 6th century and used by Augustine as his mission church on arrival in England.
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Pope Leo heads to Lourdes: What to know about one of Catholicism’s most famous pilgrimage sites msn.com/en-gb/news/other/pop…
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Another from Canterbury: St Martin's Church, the oldest church in continuous use in England. Founded by King Æthelberht's queen, Bertha, in the 6th century and used by Augustine as his mission church on arrival in England.
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Another church on our Kent pilgrimage trail: St Mary's, Newington, with its shrine-tomb of Robert de Bouser. Robert is said to have been a 12th-century pilgrim and venerated as a saint here in the late Middle Ages.
Another pilgrimage connection: pilgrims going to Canterbury stopped at the cross at Newington where miracles were said to occur.
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Historic pilgrimage through Scottish Borders named as one of 2027's hottest travel experiences msn.com/en-gb/news/other/his…
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The beautifully located Saxon church at Lower Halstow (on the shores of a creek on the River Medway), had a surprise within: a rare 12th-century lead font (1190), discovered 1921.
(See the 4th image for the wonderful pulley system to raise and lower the cover!)
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'Madonna roundel', 1220, said to be one of the oldest church stained glass works in Britain.
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More from the weekend's visit to Canterbury Cathedral: the crypt with its central Chapel of Our Lady Undercroft and wonderful, intricately carved Romanesque capitals.
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St Mary's Church in Kemsing also commemorates St Edith.
St Edith's Well, Kemsing (Kent) dedicated to Edith of Wilton born in Kemsing in 961. Outer stonework modern but internal structure medieval.
The Journal of Antiquities: "soreness and irritation of the eyes has been cured here and the well has been a place of pilgrimage since medieval times."
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St Edith's Well, Kemsing (Kent) dedicated to Edith of Wilton born in Kemsing in 961. Outer stonework modern but internal structure medieval.
The Journal of Antiquities: "soreness and irritation of the eyes has been cured here and the well has been a place of pilgrimage since medieval times."
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More from Sunday's visit to Canterbury Cathedral.
Chair of St Augustine, dated to 1201-1204 and replacing an earlier one destroyed by fire in 1174. Moved from its medieval location at Thomas Becket's shrine at the Reformation.
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