Good point - I'm only transmitting what they say at Holywell, and as you
say it's the meaning of 'public' which is crucial.
Do you have the information on the millennium pilgrimage on line, and if
so, could you pass it on? I know a few other people who have millennium
pilgrimages in mind (and indeed we are making a special effort for our
Penrhys pilgrimage next year.)
Best wishes
Maddy
At 10:45 AM 11/8/99 +0000, you wrote:
>That's very interesting. It depends, I suppose, how you define
>'public'. Another shrine where pilgrimage continued would be the Lady
>Chapel at Mount Grace, Osmotherley, N. Yorks. Catherine of Arragon
>retired here after being put out to grass by Henry VIII, and it has
>been in Catholic hands ever since. Owing to its remote location
>(before the construction of the A19) it was difficult to police it, but
>occasionally people were arrested for coming there on pilgrimage. When
>John Wesley visited Osmotherley, he stayed with the Franciscan friars
>who were then looking after the shrine; and apparently got on very
>well with them. Incidentally Wesley also visited Walsingham, and
>bewailed the neglect into which it had fallen, maintaining that this
>was a sign of the decline of religion in England.
>
>It happens that I was handed the other day some literature about a
>Millenium [sic] Pilgrimage to the shrines of Our Lady and St Winefride.
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